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When startups recruit employees to join their companies, equity is often a major component of their salary offer. This form of non-cash compensation may include options, restricted stock units, or shares, for example, and give workers partial ownership of the firms they join.
While equity represents “an increasingly important part of total compensation” for early-stage startups, they can be complex from a compliance perspective, particularly when granted to employees based in jurisdictions abroad, Ryan Freeman, head of partnerships at global payroll and HR company Deel, told HR Brew. As companies have grown more distributed, managing equity-based compensation has become more of