Horizons

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What is Horizons?

Horizons is a SaaS platform & Global PEO for companies who want to recruit, hire, and manage international employees--without the need to set up an entity overseas. Horizons' experts are in-house: recruitment consultants, local employment experts, and their legal team aim to provide prompt, accurate service via their platform, which streamlines the process.

Horizons differentiators

1. Dedicated, local HR support in the user's country of hiring
Horizons helps to employee satisfaction by offering local HR support in more than 180 countries worldwide, assigned when the user signs up on the platform. This is to help employees integrate and reduce the overall cost of global hiring projects.

2. Expansion specialists on every continent

The Horizons team is globally distributed, allowing the user to expand to new markets with accurate, timely access to data on the ground. Their team structure ensures users always have an expert from the team in their own time zone.

3. Insights on global employment
To minimize business risk Horizons boasts deep experience in global hiring, with the ability to choose accurate insights on global recruitment, hiring, and employment.

4. Unrivaled access to Asia
With large parts of their team located throughout Asia (including several physical offices), Horizons can provide a level of accuracy & speed in service. When hiring in Asia, they state the user can be confident that compliance will be met, and they will be advised on best practices for hiring international contractors or employees.

5. Competitive pricing structure

Horizons boasts value pricing starting at $290 per employee with no extra hidden fees. The user can know the costs before the project begins.

6. Full-suite services available
Horizons can provide solutions for global hiring needs. From recruitment & visa assistance to payroll & EOR services, Horizons offers a full range of HR services in-house.

7. Secure, user-centric platform
The Horizons HR management platform allows users to manage global employees– employee data, leave & expenses management, and payroll reporting– GDPR compliantly.

Categories & Use Cases

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Screenshot of The Horizons onboarding screen.

Screenshot of View all global employees; by clicking in to an employee, you can see all of their information, payslips, leave history, etc.

Screenshot of Expense reporting is easy with Horizons. An employee submits expenses and receipts, and your company either approves or rejects the request.

Screenshot of Leave requests are also super simple with Horizons. After an employee makes a leave request, you are notified to review and process the request. You can see a calendar view for each employee to track when they have taken leave or when they plan to take leave next.

Screenshot of When it's time to hire a new employee, you can raise the request directly on the platform and track their on-boarding progress.

Screenshot of Give bonsues to high-performing employees or sales-people directly on the platform.

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Screenshot of The Horizons onboarding screen.

Andrew Sparks

Network System Administrator in Information Technology at NCM Associates (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize Horizons currently as an RDP solution for our work-from-home associates. This allows them to access internal resources, such as applications, intranet, etc, easier as if they were remoting into a physical machine in the office. This allows us to purchase lighter physical machines with less resources since most of the computing will be done on the virtual machine.

Pros

Ability to utilize voice when remoting into the virtual machine.
Ability to utilize physical peripherals of a machine.
Easier options for end users to configure in order for them to utilize.

Cons

Disconnection from Horizons Agent randomly which forces the VM to need to be restarted before Horizons can administer it again and end users can login.
Speed when being utilized by end users compared to Microsoft RDP. Horizons is noticeably slower compared to Microsoft RDP.
Failover functionality when VMs disconnect from agent.

Return on Investment

Saved quite a bit of money instead of spending it on physical machines.
Kept productivity going for most associates during Covid.
Agent issues with the VMs disconnecting have caused an issue with productivity from the IT side.