IPS helps companies hire employees worldwide in full legal compliance, manage international payroll processes, and implement employment solutions without unnecessary complexity.
✓ Over 30 years of international payroll experience
✓ Experience across more than 120 countries
✓ Personal consulting instead of platform support
✓ Support for companies without their own local entity in the target country
An employer of record services case study featuring HRsolution
International employment is often too complex for standard answers. That’s why IPS relies not on anonymous platform processes, but on personal consulting from experienced points of contact.
Gerhard Benneck has been guiding companies through international employment models, payroll structures, employer-of-record solutions, and cross-border compliance for more than three decades. His experience combines international practice, entrepreneurial understanding, and an eye for legally sound implementation.
Gerhard Benneck
Managing Director
01 | Early International Influence
Gerhard Benneck came into contact with international mobility early on. Through family and professional experiences, he came to know different countries, cultures, and working realities — including New York, Cologne, Paris, and Munich.
This international influence remains a core part of IPS’s DNA to this day: anyone advising companies on international assignments, international payroll, or employer-of-record solutions must understand what international employment means in practice.
✓ Understanding of international employee realities
✓ Experience with expat topics and international assignments
✓ Consulting grounded in lived international practice
✓ Sensitivity to cultural, legal, and organizational differences
02 | International Education & Professional Practice
After earning his business degree in Washington D.C., Gerhard Benneck moved to Europe. On behalf of an American bank, he worked first in Luxembourg and later in Brussels.
It was there that the complexity of international employment in practice became clear: differing legal frameworks, local HR processes, cross-border responsibility, and the question of how companies can properly organize employees across multiple countries.
✓ Understanding of international corporate structures
✓ Experience with cross-border collaboration
✓ Practical insight into assignments, payroll, and local requirements
✓ Consulting with an international perspective
03 | Late 1980s
In the late 1980s, Gerhard Benneck founded Contacts & Management GmbH in Düsseldorf. From the start, the focus was on international companies looking to establish operations in Germany and find suitable employees.
This work led to an early, deep understanding of the challenges that arise when companies seek to employ staff in a new market — especially when there is not yet a local entity, local HR structure, or payroll department in place.
✓ Over 30 years of experience in international HR
✓ Early specialization in international companies
✓ Experience with market entry and employment in Germany
✓ Expertise built over time rather than short-term standard solutions
04 | From Recruiting to Employment Solutions
Many international clients found the right talent in Germany but faced a practical hurdle: without their own registered business, it was difficult to employ staff in full legal compliance.
It was precisely this need that led IPS to develop international payroll and employment solutions. A recruiting problem became a payroll, compliance, and employer-structure question — and with it, one of IPS’s core areas of expertise.
✓ Solutions for companies without a registered entity in the target country
✓ Combining recruiting, payroll, compliance, and employment structure
✓ Practical experience with local employment requirements
✓ Support in legally sound international team building
05 | International Expansion
Over time, client needs evolved. It was no longer just foreign companies wanting to employ staff in Germany — German companies also began looking for ways to enter international markets and hire employees abroad.
This shift transformed IPS from a Germany specialist for international employers into a partner for cross-border employment in both directions: for foreign companies in Germany and for German companies abroad.
✓ Support for international expansion
✓ Payroll services across national borders
✓ Employing staff without a local entity
✓ Experience with international market entry and test phases
06 | 2019
In 2019, an opportunity arose to further expand international operations. HRsolution International AG in Switzerland, previously a network partner of IPS, was up for sale. This gave rise to IPS International Payroll Services by HRsolution.
This step further strengthened the international structure: greater operational coverage, a larger partner network, and a sharper focus on payroll, employer of record, PEO, and international employment solutions.
✓ Expansion of the international network
✓ Stronger operational coverage in key markets
✓ Payroll, EOR, and PEO solutions from a single source
✓ International scalability with personal support
07 | Today
Today, IPS supports companies in more than 120 countries. Driven by remote work, digital nomads, international teams, and new employment models, international payroll is becoming increasingly complex.
IPS helps companies navigate this complexity in a legally sound, pragmatic, and personally supported way — backed by more than three decades of international employment experience.
✓ Support in over 120 countries
✓ Payroll, EOR, PEO, and compliance from a single source
✓ Dedicated points of contact instead of anonymous platform processes
✓ International experience from more than 30 years of practice
International employment doesn’t follow a one-size-fits-all approach. Every country brings its own requirements for labor law, social security, payroll, contracts, reporting obligations, and local compliance.
IPS combines more than 30 years of international practical experience with concrete employment solutions for companies looking to hire, assign, or employ staff abroad without their own local entity.
For companies looking to employ international talent without immediately building out local structures.
✓ Employment without a local entity in the target country
✓ Support with setup, payroll, and local compliance
✓ Fast market entry with predictable costs and lower risk
For companies that need to organize payroll, local requirements, and compliance across multiple countries.
✓ International payroll as a simple monthly process
✓ Support with local laws, taxes, and social contributions
✓ Payroll services in over 120 countries with local partners
For companies looking to employ staff in full legal compliance without their own employer structure in the target country.
✓ Local partners take on the employer role
✓ Contracts, payroll, and compliance are handled in full legal compliance
✓ Your team works operationally for you while IPS takes on the employer obligations
For companies looking to send existing employees into international projects or locations in full legal compliance.
✓ Support with labor law and tax requirements
✓ Advice on local regulations, social security, and payroll
✓ Personal support for complex international assignments
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