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Whether it's for business travel, assignments or work-from-anywhere, our global compliance engine considers all relevant risks, ensuring your peace of mind. Backed by €5m liability.
Hundreds of companies trust WorkFlex to handle their global travel compliance.
A missing A1, a wrong visa - unnoticed, until the audit or border control, turning the gap into a six-figure fine and lasting reputational damage.
Every assessment eats days of specialist time in-house or with lawyers and the cost climbs with each case you handle by hand. Often more than the penalties it's meant to prevent.
Knowing what to do in only step 1. Without a clear process to mitigate risks which have assessed, the risk stays right where it is. Rules differ by country and change constantly.
…but we won't leave you alone with a long risk assessment.
We translate the results into clear, required actions.
All the risks that come with business travel, work from anywhere and assignments, and exactly how WorkFlex prevents each one.
The travelling employee has no right to work in the destination country, creating an illegal-labour situation.
We make sure your employees hold the right to work in the destination country through WorkFlex Visa services.
The trip can constitute a permanent establishment abroad, forcing you to register the company and pay corporate tax locally.
We help you avoid triggering corporate-tax liability in the destination country.
An obligation to set up payroll in the destination country, which means you have become an employer there.
We help you avoid triggering the obligation to set up payroll in the destination country.
The employee becomes socially insured in the destination country and/or drops out of their home-country coverage.
We keep your employees covered by their home social-security scheme with A1 certificates and Certificates of Coverage.
Posted employees must be registered with local authorities before they start, or you face legal penalties.
We register the posting with the right authorities before the worker starts their trip.
Local labour law can become applicable to the employment, bringing significant additional financial obligations.
We help you avoid local labour laws becoming applicable to your employees on their trips.
Employees face health and safety risks abroad, and employers carry a legal duty of care for their people.
We provide risk assessment, real-time monitoring, emergency support and country-specific guidance to protect them.
Unauthorised access, breach, theft or damage to data while your employee is working abroad.
We assess GDPR applicability, review adequacy decisions and the destination country's data-protection laws.
+145 moreHere are answers to the most frequently asked questions.
A compliance risk assessment checks a specific business trip or workation against the legal obligations it could trigger, before the employee travels. WorkFlex evaluates key risk areas for every trip request, using employee, company, destination and trip specific data, and returns the full assessment instantly. Instead of researching each rule by hand, you can see exactly which obligations apply and what needs to be done about them.
A single cross-border trip can trigger several obligations at once. The main risks WorkFlex assesses are work entitlement, meaning whether the employee is allowed to work in the destination, permanent establishment, meaning whether their activity makes the company taxable locally, social security and staying covered at home, posted worker notifications with the local authorities, duty of care for health and safety, and data protection. Getting any of them wrong can lead to fines, back taxes or legal disputes.
Yes. Many obligations apply from the very first day abroad rather than after a set number of days. An A1 certificate for social security is needed as soon as work begins, even for a few hours, and a posted worker notification can be due before the work starts. Permanent establishment risk can also build up over time, because several short trips by the same person, or trips by different colleagues on the same project, can add up. That is why WorkFlex assesses every trip individually instead of assuming short trips are automatically safe.
Permanent establishment risk is the danger that an employee's activity abroad makes the company tax relevant in that country, even without an office or subsidiary there. If it is triggered, the business may have to register locally, attribute profits to the local branch and file corporate tax. The likelihood depends on factors such as the employee's seniority, whether they negotiate or conclude contracts, and how long they stay, and repeated or cumulative visits raise it further. WorkFlex takes previous trips and the purpose of the stay into account in every assessment.
WorkFlex evaluates seven key risk areas for each trip request, combining employee, company, destination and trip specific data, and the assessment is available instantly. The underlying compliance logic is kept current by WorkFlex's in-house compliance experts, who monitor country specific guideline changes, so your assessments always reflect the latest global mobility developments. Where the assessment finds an obligation, WorkFlex can also trigger the matching mitigation measure, such as an A1 certificate or a posted worker notification.
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