The July 21, 2026 episode of You Should Know, hosted by William Tincup of WRKdefined, brings listeners inside a partnership that could reshape how small and midsized businesses compete for talent. Titled How isolved and Remote Are Opening Global Hiring to SMBs, the conversation features Barry Gauch, Executive Vice President at isolved, and Pim Altena, GM for Remote Embedded and VP of Partnerships at Remote. The two executives detail how their companies are collapsing the legal, payroll, and compliance barriers that once locked SMBs out of hiring internationally, and why the timing matters as skill-based hiring accelerates.

Tincup guides the discussion through the full arc of the alliance, from origin story to rollout. Listeners hear how isolved ran a formal RFP that narrowed ten providers to five, why a referral relationship preceded the deeper embedded integration, and what makes Remote's API-first model different from competitors. The trio unpacks Remote's three hiring modalities inside a single platform:

• Employer of Record (EOR) for fast market entry
• Contractor management for flexible engagements
• Global payroll for established international teams

Gauch is direct about what tipped isolved toward Remote after research showed SMB and mid-market demand for cross-border hiring was climbing. "Our customer demand for global hiring had picked up," he explains, adding that isolved chose partnership over building because "it's not our key competency, but we know we needed to deliver it." Altena frames the opportunity in personal terms, recalling his time as a Remote customer trying to hire an Italian candidate he could not legally employ.

The conversation digs into the operational reality behind global employment. Tincup notes the State Department recognizes 192 countries with which U.S. companies can do business, each carrying its own federal, state, and municipal payroll rules. Altena points to the extreme divergence in labor law, citing that pre-employment medical exams are mandatory in some jurisdictions and forbidden in others, and highlights France and Germany's high employee-protection regimes. Gauch emphasizes that affordability and white-glove customer treatment were non-negotiable criteria, and previews how the integration with ApplicantPro, now fully folded into isolved, will excite talent acquisition teams and staffing-company resellers looking for one platform instead of many.

You Should Know, from WRKdefined, is a podcast that unpacks the pivotal leadership challenges shaping the modern workplace. Hosted by industry veteran William Tincup, the show engages HR practitioners, talent acquisition leaders, and anyone invested in the evolving world of work through candid conversations with the executives and operators driving change. New episodes drop regularly. This episode on isolved and Remote is available now wherever podcasts are heard.

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