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Bolton , along with Co-founder , Lorenzo Curci , launched Earthly to try and do more about the issue . Earthly aims to advise businesses everywhere on ways to invest in nature , decouple from their climate footprint and have a net positive impact on the planet .

Since it was founded , Earthly has grown to 27 employees and has worked with companies of all sizes , from small businesses to major corporations including the likes of French cosmetics brand , Garnier , and one of the UK ’ s leading mortgage brokers , Charles Cameron & Associates . Earthly works with these businesses on how to maximise the value and impact of their climate efforts and balance their responsibility to the planet with growth and productivity .

But Earthly has sky-high ambitions : its goal is to remove a gigaton of carbon emissions by 2030 , to help avoid a climate breakdown .

Growing an international team , without the hassle

As Earthly ’ s client list has grown , the company has needed a larger team to handle all this extra workload . Bolton wanted to maintain the company as a fully remote operation and hire people all over the world . However , international hires would require Earthly to open separate entities in other countries , which Bolton knew could be a tremendously difficult challenge .

“ We had previously set up our own entity in Bulgaria . It was really time-consuming and quite stressful ,” admitted Bolton .

To recruit global talent who shared Earthly ’ s climate ambitions and avoid this stress , the company needed a partner that could handle the thorny legal and HR problems that accompany the global expansion . This would free Earthly to focus on its core business functions of advising companies , as well as its bigger objective : helping to save the planet .

Thanks to a chance conversation with a friend , Bolton learned about Remote , a world leader in providing global HR solutions . Because

Remote owns legal entities in every country around the planet – without using third party providers or partnerships – Earthly would be able to recruit talented workers anywhere without getting involved in the logistics or costs of setting up its own entities .

Overcoming the hurdles of international hiring

But legal logistics were not the only challenge Earthly needed to overcome during its global expansion journey . Preserving company culture , ensuring legal compliance and finding the right talent can all prove to be pain points for remote-first companies looking to build an internationally distributed workforce .

Thankfully , Remote was able to help Earthly overcome many of these obstacles . Remote ’ s intuitive EOR platform ensures that Earthly can scale quickly without worrying about compliance , benefits , payroll or other countryspecific logistics .

For instance , Remote ’ s automatic contract generation and in-house hiring experts helped Earthly eliminate issues arising from language barriers . Having these experts in countries around the world helped to give Earthly peace of mind when searching for environmentally focused global talent .

Similarly , Remote ’ s other solutions , including Country Explorer ( which allows the client to learn more about countries with prospective hires ) and Employee Cost Calculator ( which estimate the employment costs for new hires , including benefits ), helped Earthly to research potential hiring locations .

According to Bolton : “ We like being able to look at the potential nuances of working with an employee in a certain country before we find them , so the deep dive into countries was really useful as well .”

Building this global workforce is essential to Earthly ’ s efforts of enacting global change . But as a start-up , the company ’ s resources are not limitless . Thankfully , the partnership with Remote has empowered

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WE LIKE BEING ABLE TO LOOK AT THE POTENTIAL NUANCES OF WORKING WITH AN EMPLOYEE IN A CERTAIN COUNTRY BEFORE WE FIND THEM , SO THE DEEP DIVE INTO COUNTRIES WAS REALLY USEFUL AS WELL .