EOR & Compliance Digest, May 20: Singapore Retirement Age Jumps as the EU Pay Clock Hits 18 Days If you employ anyone in Asia or Europe, this week brings two…
Most AI agent demos show the happy path. A new benchmark went looking for the opposite. Researchers built a set of tool-use tasks with shortcuts baked in. Then they watched…
TL;DR Deel and Remote are the top two EOR platforms in 2026 — both priced at $599/employee/month on annual plans. Deel wins on platform breadth and enterprise scale. Remote wins…
India's labour codes finally moved from theory to practice. Last week the Ministry of Labour and Employment notified two of the four central rule sets. These include the India industrial…
The week's biggest AI story is not a model release. It is an acquisition. Anthropic confirmed on Monday that it is buying Stainless. Stainless is a four-year-old NYC startup. Specifically,…
Think of payroll as the heartbeat of an organisation. Just as a healthy heart is vital for overall well-being, a well-managed payroll system is essential for maintaining the vitality and…
If your team payroll touches Hong Kong, Finland, Colombia, or India, this week pushes real money and real deadlines onto your plate. First, Hong Kong's minimum wage hike is already…
Three stories this week point at the same shift. AI is moving from a tool you prompt to a coworker that acts. Writer pushed event-based triggers into general availability. That…
Four continents handed employers a fresh set of deadlines this month. Most of them land before July is out. First on the list is Europe's pay transparency transposition deadline on…
One AI Bet Made $45 Billion This Year, and HR Teams Should Care The biggest AI story this week did not happen in a model release. It happened on a…
Saturday and your weekend already has compliance work. On May 8, the biggest payroll reset in a generation landed quietly in New Delhi. India Wage Code rules now dictate how…
If you hire migrant workers in Singapore, the Singapore LQS quota hike is your single biggest payroll problem this quarter. From July 1, the Local Qualifying Salary jumps from S$1,600…
Editor's Note: All week the AI headlines have been about money. Microsoft is in talks to buy a Stanford-born diffusion-LLM startup for over a billion dollars. The goal is to…
EOR & Compliance Digest, May 14: The UK Just Gave Employers One Week to Shape Redundancy Law Seven days. That is how long UK employers have to formally tell the…
Editor's Note: The week's most consequential story isn't an LLM release or an enterprise software deal. It's a $2.1 billion raise for a company that wants to replace the traditional…
Two enforcement deadlines land this week, and both have teeth. California pay data reporting for the 2025 cycle is due today, May 13. Any California employer with 100 or more…
Two enforcement deadlines land this week, and both have teeth. California pay data reporting for the 2025 cycle is due today, May 13. Any California employer with 100 or more…
Editor's Note: The APAC AI enterprise commitment just got a number attached to it: 99%. That is the share of Indian enterprises planning to increase AI investments over the next…
The second week of May brought a compliance squeeze across four major hiring markets. USCIS final action dates now govern all employment-based green card filings in the United States, freezing…
AI mathematical reasoning just crossed a threshold most researchers didn't expect until 2030. DeepMind's Co-Mathematician resolved a group theory problem that had been open since 1965. Meanwhile, India crossed $1.48…