IRIS Global HR Services

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    customers supported across the globe

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    countries covered by IRIS HR solutions

  • 40+

    years of helping customers grow

Global HR Consulting Services

Grow your global workforce with confidence

Expanding your business globally presents plenty of challenges, especially when it comes to HR and workforce management.

From legal compliance with local employment law to navigating language barriers and cultural differences; without compliant, country-specific HR practices, you risk fines, reputational harm, and financial penalties.

Our global HR services empower you with the expertise, guidance, and in-country support you need to make the most of your global workforce.

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    A unified global team

    Get your global workforce on the same page with powerful unified HR strategies that take cultural nuances into account.

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    International HR expertise

    We simplify HR compliance across 135 countries, handling local laws and resolving your compliance challenges.

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    Flexible payment options

    Choose from a range of payment options, including pay-as-you-go, pre-paid blocks, or a bespoke monthly package.

  • HR employment law and compliance

    Follow the letter of the law, wherever you are in the world

    Navigating local, regional, and federal laws in new countries can be complex, but IRIS helps you keep things simple.

    Whether you’re hiring a handful of employees or scaling across nations, we extend your HR team with expert support to keep you compliant with employment laws across 135 countries.

    Focus on growing your global workforce—leave the legal details to us.

  • Global employee benefits

    Attract top talent with local benefits

    A great compensation package helps you attract, motivate, and retain top talent – but with a global workforce, you also need to manage local benefits and compensation policies.

    As global employee benefits specialists, we support you with:

    Creating tailored packages like private medical insurance, annual leave upgrades, or family allowances

    Planning and managing global rewards to meet local regulations, such as car schemes or training opportunities.

    Building culturally relevant incentive programs, including career growth, work-life initiatives, and performance-based bonuses.

  • Complete employee lifecycle

    For every stage of every employee lifecycle

    Secure reliable, regional support for every aspect of the global employee lifecycle, from drawing up contracts to handling redundancies.

    We support you with:

    • Onboarding – Employment rights, compliance and HR policy checks, offer letters, arranging contracts, and inducting new hires on the ground
    • Ongoing – Probation management, daily HR casework, performance management, employee engagement, learning and development (L&D), and absence management
    • Off-boarding – Resignation, redundancy, disciplinaries, dismissals, RIF (reduction in force), and staff transfers.
  • Global mobility and immigration

    Comprehensive expatriate management

    Whether your workforce includes a handful of expatriates or hundreds, managing global mobility and immigration is easier with IRIS.

    Supercharge your in-house HR output with services like:

    • Expatriate management, including guidance on taxation, risk management, and costings
    • Immigration services, with support securing documentation, passports, work permits, and medical needs
    • Relocation support covering COLA analysis, relocation policy, housing, and language/cultural training 
  • Strategic M&A consulting

    Scalable expansion strategies

    Streamline your global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) with our in-country M&A HR experts.

    Acting as an extension of your own HR department, IRIS Global HR Consulting helps you prepare for global expansions, with guidance on strategies, M&As, carve-outs, divestitures, and more.

    Plus, our experienced specialists also empower your in-house HR team with post-transaction expertise, including terms and conditions due diligence and migration, compensation, benefits, and compliance audits.

Backing thousands of businesses with HR expertise in 135 countries  

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Smooth employee onboarding

Enjoy an employee onboarding process that’s fast, compliant, and stress-free with IRIS Global HR Consulting.  

  • New employees are onboarded seamlessly and in line with local laws, reducing risks and minimizing disruption 
  • You and your team are supported by our expert HR managers, who ensure all legal requirements are covered 
  • We work in your time zone and language, making collaboration effortless—even across multiple countries.  
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Global HR Consulting

International reach, local expertise 

Expanding into new international markets can present its challenges, but workforce management needn’t be one of them.

  • Rely on our in-country HR specialists to ensure compliance with local employment laws and compliance 
  • Guarantee smooth operations into new markets with local HR and recruitment expertise 
  • Benefit from expert HR guidance on implementing global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) 
  • Global payroll services

    As a leader in global payroll services, IRIS ensures that your global workforce is paid accurately and promptly, maintaining full compliance with local regulations.

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Give yourself the go-ahead to go global

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Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

Global HR (Human Resources) refers to the management of an organization’s human resources on an international scale.

It involves managing talent, policies, and processes across multiple countries; so whatever country an employee is based in, they will receive HR support appropriate to their location that complies with local employment law.

Global HR also addresses the diversity of legal, cultural, and operational differences that occur when a business operates internationally.

While traditional HR focuses on managing employees within a single country or region, global HR deals with managing employees across multiple international locations.

It includes adapting to various employment laws, cultural differences, and communication challenges while creating cohesive HR policies and implementing strategies that work globally.

Managing HR is no easy task when taking your business overseas.

Not only are there language barriers and different currencies to take into consideration, but compliance with local legislation is also a top priority.

If this isn’t considered, businesses are at serious risk of:

  • expensive fines and tax penalties
  • costly and lengthy lawsuits
  • reputational damage
  • and even the closure of your overseas business.

It’s risks like these that lead many global businesses to enlist the support of HR consulting services with specialist global expertise.

No, you don’t need global HR to employ someone based in a different country—but it can pose distinct challenges.

For example, a US-based business expanding into Europe can ask its HR department to manage a workforce based in Portugal. However, that US-based HR team must now understand Portuguese employment law, use localised HR software, and handle linguistic and currency differences.

This is why many international businesses choose to outsource their HR functions to a global HR consultancy like IRIS.

Global HR services can encompass a wide range of solutions, such as:

  • International talent acquisition and recruitment
  • Global payroll and compliance management
  • Employee relocation and expatriate management
  • International benefits and compensation structuring
  • Cross-border legal and employment compliance support
  • Cultural training and diversity management
  • Strategic workforce planning across global offices
  • The best global HR services will also provide you with flexible payment options or scalable solutions, much like IRIS Global HR Services and Consulting.

If your business operates or is expanding internationally and you intend to employ people living in a different country, you may need global HR services.

You may want to consider investing in global HR services if you are:

  • opening offices or hiring employees in new countries
  • facing challenges with compliance across various legal systems
  • interested in creating consistent global policies while accommodating regional differences
  • expecting employee relocations and expatriate management to become more common across your business.

Specialist providers like IRIS Global HR Consulting Services help simplify complex international operations, enabling you to focus on your business’s core activities.

IRIS Global HR Consulting Services provides you with three different payment options, so you can choose which approach best suits your business.

  1. Pay-as-you-go – For specific HR projects, we’ll match professionals, estimate costs, and provide timelines—all before you commit.
  2. Pre-paid blocks – Pre-purchase consulting hours at a discounted rate, use them anytime, and roll over unused time for future needs.

Assurance Unlimited – Get unlimited HR support across countries anytime with our simple monthly HR Assurance consultancy package.