How Routefusion Used Rise EOR To Onboard Full-Time Employees from Abroad in Under 24 Hours with Rise

Before Rise, employing people outside the US was a significant operational headache for Routefusion. With team members in the UK and Mexico, the options were limited: set up local entities in each country, which is a process that typically takes 4–6 months and costs upwards of $50,000 per jurisdiction, or try to manage it through a patchwork of local accountants, legal counsel, and payroll providers that didn't talk to each other. The compliance side was the biggest pain point. Every country has its own employment laws, tax obligations, and benefits requirements, and getting any of it wrong carries real risk. For a company Routefusion's size, dedicating internal resources to becoming experts in UK and Mexican labour law just wasn't realistic. They needed to stay focused on their core business, building payments infrastructure, not figuring out the nuances of PAYE in the UK or IMSS contributions in Mexico. Payroll itself was also clunky. Coordinating payment schedules across multiple countries, currencies, and providers meant 10–15 hours per month of manual work and a lot of room for things to slip through the cracks.

Rise's Employer of Record service essentially removed the entire problem. Rise acts as the employer of record for Routefusion's UK and Mexico-based team members, which means Rise handles all the local compliance, employment contracts, tax filings, and benefits so Routefusion doesn't have to set up entities or manage any of that themselves. The onboarding process was fast and Routefusion was up and running in under 24 hours, not the 2–4 weeks they'd previously experienced. Their team members get paid on time, in their local currency, with proper benefits and full compliance with local labour laws. And from Routefusion's side, it's all managed through a single platform instead of juggling multiple providers across countries. What Routefusion really appreciates is that Rise lets them punch above their weight internationally. They can hire the best people regardless of where they are without it becoming an operational burden. They get to focus on what they're good at, building world-class payments infrastructure, and Rise handles the rest.

Local Entity setup eliminated from 4–6 months and $50K+ per country to zero. Onboarding time reduced 99% - from weeks of coordination to under 24 hours. Payroll admin cut by 75% - from juggling multiple providers to a single platform. Compliance risk reduced to near-zero - Rise manages UK and Mexico employment law end-to-end.