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Remote People
Remote People becomes the legal employer of your international staff. Employment contracts, local labour law compliance, payroll tax, social contributions, termination rights. Your people are employees — properly, compliantly, in each country they're in....
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Payoneer Workforce Management
Payoneer Workforce sends money to contractors and freelancers in 200+ countries. Multiple payment methods, batch payouts, compliance documentation. It does not employ anyone. The employment relationship and its legal implications remain your responsibility....
Employment infrastructure vs payment infrastructure. Know the difference before you choose.
Both send money to people overseas. Everything else is different.
Remote People is an EOR. Payoneer Workforce is a payment platform. The fact that both result in someone overseas receiving money from your company does not make them interchangeable — any more than a work visa and a plane ticket are interchangeable because both help someone reach another country.
Misclassifying employees as contractors — and paying them through Payoneer instead of a proper EOR — is one of the most common and expensive compliance mistakes growing companies make. The decision between these two tools is not really a product evaluation. It's a legal classification question about the nature of your working relationships.
ROUND 01
What it actually does
Core purpose
Remote People becomes the legal employer of your international staff. Employment contracts, local labour law compliance, payroll tax, social contributions, termination rights. Your people are employees — properly, compliantly, in each country they're in.
Payoneer Workforce sends money to contractors and freelancers in 200+ countries. Multiple payment methods, batch payouts, compliance documentation. It does not employ anyone. The employment relationship and its legal implications remain your responsibility.
Different tools for different legal relationships. The choice is not about product preference — it's about whether your workers are employees or contractors.
ROUND 02
Skin in the Game
Who carries the risk
Remote People takes on EOR liability. Their name is on the employment contract. Employment disputes, tax compliance errors, wrongful termination: Remote People's problem. ISO 27001 + SOC 2 certified — their compliance infrastructure is audited.
Payoneer moves money and provides compliance documentation for contractor relationships. The legal classification of your workers remains your decision and your liability. If authorities determine your contractors are actually employees, Payoneer cannot protect you.
Remote People has skin in the game on employment. Payoneer does not — and is not designed to. For employees, this matters enormously.
ROUND 03
The real cost
Price vs total cost
Remote People from $199/employee/month. For workers who should legally be employees, this is the bounded, known cost. The alternative — treating employees as contractors and paying them through Payoneer — creates liability that surfaces as back taxes, penalties and legal costs.
Payoneer charges 1–3% transaction fees for genuine contractor payments. Excellent value for the right use case. For genuine contractors — project-based, independent, no ongoing employment relationship — Payoneer is purpose-built and appropriately priced.
For employees: Remote People is the cost-effective choice when total cost of alternatives is included. For genuine contractors: Payoneer wins clearly on price and flexibility.
ROUND 04
The Malta angle
Local reality
Remote People has direct Malta presence and deep roots in iGaming and financial services hiring. For Malta companies building international employee teams, this is the infrastructure that fits.
Payoneer is widely used in Malta for paying freelancers, agencies and project-based contractors — designers, developers, consultants, media buyers. A trusted payment tool in the local ecosystem for the right use case.
Most Malta companies need both — Remote People for the employees they're building a permanent team with, Payoneer for the contractors and agencies they work with on projects. They're not competing for the same slot.
The Verdict
Employees need an EOR. Contractors need a payment platform. Know which is which.
Choose if you're
Remote People
Hiring international employees and need compliant employment infrastructure — contracts, payroll tax, local compliance — from $199/month with recruitment included.
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Choose if you're
Payoneer Workforce Management
Paying genuine contractors and freelancers on a project basis — no employment relationship, no compliance overhead, 200+ countries.
Start with Payoneer Workforce Management →
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