How Estonia e-Residency are empowering nomadic EU companies with Deel

유럽 북동부 지역에 위치한 에스토니아는 빠르게 성장하는 원격 근무 시장에서 디지털 노마드 친화적 국가로 급격히 성장하고 있습니다. 2014년에 출범한 에스토니아 E-Residency 프로그램은 전 세계 기업가들이 EU에 기반을 둔 회사를 창업하고 온라인으로 전체 비즈니스를 관리할 수 있도록 지원합니다.

에스토니아는 투명한 비즈니스 환경에서 비즈니스 운영 권한을 부여하는 정부 발급 디지털 아이디 e-Residency를 제공하는 최초의 국가입니다. 에스토니아 전자 거주자가 되면 100% 온라인으로 회사를 창업하여 원격으로 EU에서 비즈니스를 운영하고 번거로운 관료주의적 절차에서 벗어나 페이퍼리스 오피스를 실현할 수 있습니다.

e-Residency 프로그램은 독일부터 브라질까지 누구에게나 열려 있습니다. 대부분의 프로그램 신청자들은 EU 국가에 실제로 기반하지 않고도 EU 기업을 설립하여 온라인으로 운영하고자 합니다. 따라서 전자 거주자들에게 위치의 독립성은 매우 중요합니다. 이 프로그램은 글로벌 업무 트렌드와 변화를 발 빠르게 파악하고 반영하여 운영 중에 있습니다. 에스토니아 e-Residency 책임자 Lauri Haav는 “프리랜서 비즈니스와 디지털 노마드는 현재 세계에서 가장 두드러지는 메가트렌드 중 하나"라며 "에스토니아는 원격 기업가와 원격 근무자의 역량을 강화하고 필요한 서비스를 제공하기 위한 100% 디지털 솔루션을 갖춘 세계 최초의 국가 프로그램"이라고 말합니다.

The program’s virtual marketplace is robust, not to mention it’s continually growing, now boasting 90 verified service providers catering to nearly 90,000 e-Residents’ needs that are launching and expanding their businesses. In joining forces with Estonia’s e-Residency, Deel aims to facilitate even more global remote work. Recognizing a shared intention in changing the way people work, both organizations have acknowledged the power of this pairing.

“It is clear that location-independent entrepreneurship and international talent mobility are here to stay…” Haav explains, “we are extremely excited that Estonian e-residents can now benefit from Deel’s wide-ranging service portfolio.” Deel’s Co-Founder and CEO Alex Bouaziz echoes the sentiment stating, “Deel and e-Residency believe that people's way of working is fundamentally shifting, and both companies are at the forefront of changing the way the world works. Our collaboration will help meet the needs of thousands of entrepreneurs and enable them to onboard talent across the globe.”

Meet Dylan Hey. Originally hailing from the UK, Hey currently runs an advertising agency named Hey Digital, providing paid advertising to B2B software companies. While working as a digital nomad in 2017, Dylan learned about Estonian e-Residency and quickly became one. From there, Hey Digital was born. After leaving the UK behind, Dylan traveled around Europe and was able to operate his company remotely thanks to the program.

Flash forward to today. The growing company now has a team of 16 with plans to grow to more than 25 in the next few months. For Hey Digital, the partnership between Deel and e-Residency is perfect; their widely distributed team works from 11 countries while benefiting from the partnership. For Hey Digital, the partnership between Deel and e-Residency is ideal for everyone involved; the company has seen global team growth while streamlining their international hiring and payroll and their team enjoys the flexibility of remote work with the freedom to work from 11 different countries.

Frustrated by the challenges of manual payments and invoicing for different countries on other platforms, Dyland discovered Deel. Like others who have come to Deel for solutions, Dylan shared that “some [employees] needed payment with Paypal, some Wise, some Bank transfer and that was generating many challenges. I also wanted compliant contracts for my team all across the world.” After finding out about Deel, Dylan could scale his team across borders easily and fast. After all, 19 people come with a lot of logistics and compliance issues, but luckily he had Deel, stating, "I actually can’t recommend Deel enough; it makes my life so much easier.”

Deel의 고객이자 에스토니아 전자 거주자인 Dylan Hey는 이 파트너십이 자신과 같은 많은 기업가들이게 기회의 장을 열어줄 것이라고 생각합니다.

"Today, I run Hey Digital as a global team while constantly on the move, which is possible thanks to the reliable support services provided by Deel and many others available through the larger e-Residency marketplace. While e-Residency allowed me to set up a virtual business that I can run remotely from anywhere in the world, Deel facilitates both payroll and employment contracts, which would otherwise take months and incur a considerable cost, i.e., to account for the specificities of national legislation in each person’s country of origin. I believe that partnership between e-Residency and Deel will finally open the door for many other excellent business ideas that have thus far been stifled by excess bureaucracy."