How Axero’s payroll transformation saved $1m annually - while ensuring global compliance

When compliance becomes the cost of growth

Axero built a global team because the work demanded it.

Designers, developers, and support staff spread across India, Spain, Montenegro, and the Philippines gave the business the talent it needed to build and maintain a product used by organizations around the world. But the compliance overhead that came with that team was quietly becoming a constraint on the business itself.

Maintaining compliance with diverse local employment laws, regulations, contracts, and taxes across those countries was labor-intensive. The complexity deepened when it came to employee tax and social security withholdings, each country operating under its own rules, with its own consequences for getting them wrong. Companies, countries, and talent were all moving to different rhythms, and there was no unified layer to bring them together.

“We have a global team and doing things in a locally compliant manner, from payroll, contracts, taxes and more, was tough. It has become quite cumbersome to manage all of this internally.”  – Adam Ilowite, CEO of Axero. 

Axero had the internal resources it needed; but it was missing the right infrastructure.

One platform, every market, compliance built in

Axero chose Multiplier’s Employer of Record Service, which gave the business a way to employ people across countries without establishing new entities. Multiplier’s Global Exchange for Work provided the unified layer where compliance, payroll, and employment came together, with the rules of each market already built in.

Through the platform, Axero could generate locally compliant contracts, navigate specific labor and tax laws, provide local insurance coverage through Multiplier’s partners, and ensure legal tax contributions across every jurisdiction. The salary calculator gave the team clear visibility into employment costs before committing to a hire, so there were no surprises as employees moved onto the new system. 

“The salary calculator was very helpful for us, especially as we were moving employees from one platform to another, so there weren’t any unforeseen surprises.” – Adam Ilowite, CEO of Axero

What had been a source of internal strain became something the team no longer had to think about. Countries had their rules. Multiplier held them. Axero could focus on the business.

$1m saved, talent that stays

The results were immediate and measurable. Multiplier’s EOR solution led to an annual saving of $1M in payroll and operations, while maintaining full compliance with local, corporate, and tax laws across every market. It also freed up 300 hours of work a month that had previously been consumed by manual administration, time the team could put back into the business.

The outcome that extended beyond the numbers was retention. Through Multiplier’s local insurance partners, Axero could offer benefits their employees had not had access to before, giving people the flexibility to live wherever they chose with proper local coverage in place. Talent that had been difficult to retain stayed. 

“We feel much more at peace knowing that we’re in compliance with all local regulations and laws. We’ve also been able to offer certain benefits that we weren’t able to offer beforehand.” – Adam Ilowite, CEO of Axero.

Multiplier’s Global Exchange for Work delivered exactly what Avero needed: a global team, compliantly employed, with benefits that made them stay.