HR and Payroll Software for Remote and Hybrid Teams

Managing a remote or hybrid workforce brings HR complexity that fully office-based businesses do not face: employees in different locations, home working equipment as a taxable benefit (or not, depending on the arrangement), right to work checks conducted digitally rather than in person, and performance management that cannot rely on physical presence as a proxy for productivity.

For remote teams, the employee self-service capability of your HR platform matters more than it does for office-based staff. Employees need to request leave, check payslips, update personal details, and access their employment contract without having to call someone or come into an office. Mellow's self-service portal is mobile-responsive and accessible from any device — the experience works for a remote employee in Edinburgh as well as one who is five minutes from the office.

The digital right to work check — using HMRC's online checking service or an Identity Service Provider — is now available for most British and Irish nationals and all EU citizens with settled or pre-settled status. For remote hiring across the UK, this means right to work checks can be completed without requiring the employee to come in. Mellow logs the check type and the date, and sends the appropriate reminder if the permission is time-limited.