Remote rebrand 2026: what changes for EOR clients

Written by Lucia AparicioFact-checked by Michael Ennis

Updated 11 Nov 2026~11 min read

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Lucia AparicioSenior Editor and HRIS Specialist

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Updated 11 Nov 2026 · Published 13 Oct 2026

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What happened

Remote (remote.com), the EOR and global payroll provider founded in 2019 by Job van der Voort and Marcelo Lebre, published a new logo, wordmark, typeface and color palette on 13 October 2026. In a blog post that day, chief executive van der Voort summed up the company’s mission as “pay the world”. He described the strategy as infrastructure: Remote’s record of a company’s people data and the payroll it runs worldwide, both open to AI agents and third-party tools. A press release the same day says the agency Collins worked on the redesign.

According to the post, the payroll, EOR and contractor management infrastructure customers use is unchanged; what is new is the platform’s appearance. Neither the post nor the release announces a change to prices, contract terms or employing entities. Remote’s Terms of Service and its country-specific Local Terms, checked on 11 November 2026, both show 3 August 2026 as the date of their last update, ten weeks before the rebrand.

Remote says the platform under the new brand is the same

Remote’s Terms of Service name the company you contract with: Remote Technology Services, Inc. for customers with a US address and Remote Europe Holding B.V., registered in Amsterdam, for customers elsewhere, together with the Remote affiliates that serve or invoice you. The Local Terms name the Remote affiliate for each country they cover. Under the Terms of Service, if you keep using the services 30 days after Remote notifies you of a change, you are treated as having accepted it.

The new positioning treats EOR as one employment model on a payroll platform

Remote’s 20 January 2026 release called it a global employment operating system and its 14 May release a global payroll and employment infrastructure platform. The financial operating system line was already in a release of 14 September, a month before the new identity. The October release lists Global Payroll first among four products, ahead of EOR, Contractor Management and PEO. It presents EOR as one of three employment models, with direct employment and contractor management.

The October release says Remote’s payroll business grew 300% year on year, a figure its 14 May announcement gave as more than 300%. In May, Remote also said it was cash-flow positive, with annual recurring revenue above USD 300 million. Neither release gives the base the growth is measured from. CFOtech’s reports of 14, 20 and 27 October 2026 carry the 300% figure, and none cites an independent source.

The blog post says Remote is building its own payroll engines and wants to pair time tracking with payroll in 50+ countries, which it says nobody has done. Remote also announced two software acquisitions this year: Atlas, an expense management app (not the EOR provider Atlas HXM), on 20 January and Bravas, an identity and device management firm, on 9 April. Staffing Industry Analysts reported that the Bravas deal closed on 31 March.

Remote introduced Remote MCP on 14 May to connect AI agents to a customer’s live payroll, contract and compliance data, and the October release promotes it next to API and CLI access. Remote’s developer page says all three carry the permissions of the person who signs in, so an AI tool connected by an admin sees the employer data that admin sees.

Our reading: the pitch is aimed at companies that expect to open their own entities and want to move staff from EOR to in-house payroll without changing vendor. If you only need EOR, judge Remote on the EOR contract you are offered. Our Deel vs Remote comparison sets the two providers’ EOR fees, deposits and payroll funding side by side.

On 11 November 2026 Remote listed EOR from USD 599 per employee per month on annual contracts

On 11 November 2026, Remote’s pricing page showed its EOR starting at USD 599 per employee per month, with the words “for annual contracts” beneath the price. The page says there is no setup, onboarding or base fee. A Help Center article last updated on 11 March 2026 gives a second figure: a standard EOR price of USD 699 per employee per month, invoiced each month according to active usage. The pricing page shows no EOR rate for monthly billing, and the Help Center article sends readers to it for current prices.

Product	Listed price	Term or condition shown
Product Employer of Record	Listed price From USD 599 per employee per month	Term or condition shown Annual contracts
Product Contractor Management	Listed price From USD 29 per contractor per month	Term or condition shown Charged for active contractors only
Product PEO (US)	Listed price From USD 99 per employee per month	Term or condition shown Billed in USD; US bank account required

For ten employees, the gap between the two EOR rates is USD 12,000 a year in service fees. Our Remote EOR review covers the fee and contract terms, and our guide to employer of record cost compares published fees across providers.

Remote’s pricing FAQ says it charges no standard deposit and can require a refundable reserve in certain circumstances, with the amount confirmed during onboarding. Its Help Center, in an article updated on 6 November 2026, treats a reserve as a standard part of EOR onboarding: typically one month of base salary plus mandatory employer costs, which a credit review can reduce or waive. The Terms of Service also allow Remote to require a standby letter of credit or another guarantee, and to raise service fees each year with at least 30 days’ written notice. You avoid the increase if you terminate the affected service during the notice period.

Price and billing term. Ask whether you are on the USD 599 annual rate or the USD 699 standard monthly rate shown on 11 November 2026, and whether an annual contract is invoiced monthly or prepaid.
Legal employer. Ask for the name and registration number of the Remote company that employs each person, and match it against the Local Terms.
Reserve. Ask whether a reserve applies to your account, how it is calculated and when it is refunded.
Exit costs. The terms mention invoices for order form termination and minimum contract value, so ask whether your order form carries either.
Access for AI tools. List who holds admin rights in Remote and which API, CLI or MCP connections are active before anyone links an AI assistant.

If the renewal quote differs from the listed price, send the same role, country and salary to other providers. Our Remote alternatives page names providers to quote against, and our ranking of the best employer of record services lists fees, deposits and exit terms for 11 providers.

ADP’s Global EOR, which ADP announced on 2 November 2026 for Workforce Now customers, uses Remote as the legal employer in 90+ countries. On 5 November 2026, Remote launched Expense Cards, virtual cards for eligible EOR employees that Remote says carry no platform fee or per-card charge.

The post and the release give no launch date for the combined time and payroll product and do not say which countries will run on Remote’s own payroll engines. Neither mentions 2027 pricing, and the only future date in either is the campaign’s fourth-quarter run.

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