HR Core by Remote

The product name in the brief does not exist. Remote HR Management is not a name Remote uses anywhere that could be found. Two names are in play on Remote own properties: HR Core, or HR Core by Remote, on its current marketing product page, and Remote HRIS in its help centre. This entry uses HR Core as the name, since that is the current product page, and notes Remote HRIS as an alias. The naming inconsistency between marketing and support is itself worth knowing, because it makes support articles hard to match to product pages.

As with Deel, the category point comes first. An employer of record is a fundamentally different purchase from an HRIS. Remote primary business is legally employing people on your behalf in countries where you have no entity. HR Core is the HR layer bundled with that, not a standalone HRIS competing with BambooHR or Personio on price and features. Comparing them directly produces nonsense in both directions.

Verified capabilities include employee profiles with a lifecycle timeline and custom fields, documents and e-signature, time off with leave types and accruals per entity and location, time and attendance including on call and project tracking, expenses, onboarding and offboarding flows, employee self service with a mobile app, manager approvals and reporting line visibility, performance tracking stated on the HRIS overview page though not on the HR Core page, a partner API and customer API with an API reference, and mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play.

Remote publishes a genuinely unusual and useful limitation, and it deserves to be quoted. Its own help centre states that, unlike employer of record, an HRIS does not handle things like compliance, benefits or tax withholding for you. That is a rare case of a vendor explicitly scoping its HRIS out of compliance, and it is recorded here as a genuine negative for the HRIS only product scope rather than as unknown.

On the UAE, Remote names it and owns an entity there. Its UAE country explorer page states that Remote owns its own legal entity in the UAE and provides employer of record in house, with local payroll paid on time, plus UAE contractor payments. The same page names the UAE Wage Protection System, but only as an employer obligation, saying employers must ensure compliance with it. It does not say Remote files or handles WPS. So UAE payroll under EOR is yes, through Remote own UAE entity; WPS handling is unknown; and native payroll for a customer own UAE entity is unknown, since the Global Payroll country list could not be confirmed to include the UAE.

HR Core has no standalone price. Remote pricing page lists no HRIS line item and the HR Core page says it is included with every EOR, Payroll, Contractor or PEO licence. Do not call it free: the only free claim on Remote site relates to contractor management. Published platform figures, all starting at, all bare dollar signs except US PEO which states USD, are EOR 599 per employee per month on annual contracts, Global Payroll 29, Contractor Management 29, Contractor Management Plus 99, Contractor of Record 325 and US PEO 99.

Remote fits companies that need to employ people in countries where they have no entity, and that want the HR administration for those people in the same system. For a UAE specific case it has a real advantage worth knowing: Remote states it owns its own legal entity in the UAE and delivers EOR in house rather than through a local partner. For a company hiring its first few people in Dubai or Abu Dhabi, that reduces the number of parties in the chain.

It is the wrong purchase in two situations. First, if you already have a UAE entity and a payroll to run, EOR is not what you need and Remote Global Payroll coverage of the UAE could not be confirmed. Second, if what you want is an HRIS, Remote own documentation says the HRIS does not handle compliance, benefits or tax withholding, and HR Core cannot be bought on its own: it comes bundled with an EOR, payroll, contractor or PEO licence. A buyer wanting pure HR software should look at the HRIS products in this category instead.

Two further practical points. There is no evidence Remote handles UAE WPS submissions; it names WPS only as the employer obligation, so if you are relying on Remote as EOR, establish who produces and submits the salary information file. And the HR Core versus Remote HRIS naming split between marketing and support means you should check which product a given help article actually describes.

Typical use cases: companies hiring a small number of people in the UAE or other countries without setting up entities; organisations managing contractors across many countries; employers wanting EOR workers and contractors in one HR directory. Less typical: established UAE entities needing WPS compliant monthly payroll, and anyone wanting to buy HR software on its own.