Rippling launches in India

Rippling is now available for companies based in India! Rippling has had roots in India since its inception with Indian co-founder, Prasanna Sankar—and since 2017, our office in Bangalore has supported our own global workforce, with 500+ employees across engineering, product management, design, sales, and other business functions.

And now, one of the fastest growing HR tech companies, backed by Y Combinator and some of the world’s top investors, including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, and more, is available to companies headquartered in India. Indian companies can now use Rippling Employer of Record (EOR) to compliantly hire, pay, and manage internationally and use Global HRIS, app and device management, and more to equip their global team.

India and the rise of international hiring

In 2023, India surpassed China to become the world’s most populous nation. Simultaneously, it has cemented its place in the global economy. A 2023 report showed that Indian companies lead the world when it comes to international and remote hiring. India also has one of the world’s highest rates of employer of record (EOR) adoption at just over 70%. EORs are third-party services that help companies employ and pay workers in countries where they don’t have their own legal entity, managing the complexities of local compliance, taxes, benefits, and more (but more on that below).

Here’s the challenge: As more Indian companies scale globally, they need technology that can support their workforce around the world. Traditionally, Indian businesses have had to rely on many disconnected systems to manage and pay workers in multiple countries. This practice requires time-consuming manual data entry, back-and-forth with support, and suboptimal integration between different apps. As a result, businesses spend significantly more time and money hiring, paying, and managing their workforce, in addition to higher exposure to compliance risks.

But now, Rippling is available to Indian businesses. We’re solving the specific people operations challenges related to international expansion and remote hiring. 

Introducing the international workforce management system made for India

Compared to other “all-in-one” platforms that grow their offerings through acquisitions, Rippling has natively built every application an Indian business needs to manage and pay their international workforce. 

EOR: Setting up entities in all the countries where you hire is expensive and time-consuming. Rippling EOR allows you to scale your global workforce quickly and compliantly—without setting up local entities. Onboard new hires across the board in just 90 seconds, send fully localized and compliant employment agreements, set up local tax accounts, pay all your international workers in their local currencies, and more.

Global Contractor: Rippling is the best solution for seamlessly paying international contractors—you can supply country-specific consulting agreement templates and pay contractors in their local currencies or USD, no matter their location.

IT: With Rippling IT, you can manage your employees’ identity, access, devices, data, security, and more in one unified system. Rippling’s natively built IT products are powered by the same single source of truth as HR, so you can use always-up-to-date data to automate IT tasks across the entire employee lifecycle, strengthen your company’s security posture, and implement compliance standards like SOC 2 in just a few clicks. And, with 500+ pre-built integrations in the Rippling app store, your employees will always have access to the right tools at the right time.

Reporting: When all of your data is housed in one unified system, reporting becomes a breeze. With Rippling, you can pull data from anywhere in the system—salaries, equity, expenses, survey results, app access, device security, recruitment, and thousands of other data points—and filter it in endless different ways to effortlessly create the exact reports you need. Manual number crunching? Not anymore.

Time tracking: Rippling Time & Attendance syncs seamlessly with payroll so you never have to track or manually enter employees’ hours outside of your HRIS.

Expense reimbursement: With Rippling, you can build reimbursement policies based on employee data, like department or role. That means automatically approving, blocking, and flagging expenses faster than other systems.

Policy management: With Rippling, you can design policies that apply to the entire company, or just groups of employees you select based on specific data, like their role or location. For example, you can design a custom leave policy that gives employees the day off on their birthday.

Rippling: The best way for Indian companies to manage an international workforce

Are you looking to expand internationally or hire remotely? With Rippling, you can easily manage your global team.

Trying to hire in a country you don’t have an entity in? Rippling EOR hires employees on your behalf so you can grow your team without taking on the complexity of international employment. 

This launch brings us one step closer to our goal: freeing smart people to work on hard problems—all over the world. We can’t wait for Indian businesses like yours to experience the power of Rippling.

HRIS: Rippling HRIS is a single source of truth for all your employee data. By having all your employee data in one system, you can manage and automate every step of the employee lifecycle, from recruiting and onboarding to transitions to offboarding. You no longer need to manage sensitive employee data out of spreadsheets or separate systems, or manually transfer employee details from your ATS to your HRIS, then to your benefits administration software, then to your payroll software, and so on—risking costly errors at every step. With Rippling HRIS, employee data syncs across every system, and when it’s updated in one, it automatically updates everywhere, saving your HR team countless hours of manual work.

Compliance: Hiring internationally can be tricky. That’s why we’ve built compliance into every part of Rippling—and every country where you hire—to reduce your risk of violations, fines, and penalties.

Global Payroll: Seamlessly pay workers around the world without waiting for any bank transfers or currency conversions. What’s even better is that Rippling syncs your global employees’ HR data to payroll so their hours, time off, deductions, and more are automatically applied with no manual data entry. All you have to do is check for accuracy and click Run Payroll and your global employees get paid in just 90 seconds. It’s global payroll so easy it practically runs itself.

Disclaimer: Rippling and its affiliates do not provide tax, accounting, or legal advice. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide or be relied on for tax, accounting, or legal advice. You should consult your own tax, accounting, and legal advisors before engaging in any related activities or transactions.