Your global HR platform handles London, New York, and Sydney without breaking a sweat. But the moment your headcount lands in Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Manila, or Phnom Penh, the cracks start to show.

Southeast Asia is one of the fastest-growing workforce destinations for European and multinational companies and one of the least understood from a payroll compliance perspective. Dynamic labour laws, overlapping statutory obligations, multi-currency payroll cycles, rapidly evolving social contribution rules, not to mention the different local languages, make this region structurally different from any other market your global HRMS was designed for. Most global platforms cover Singapore and Hong Kong reasonably well. The rest of Southeast Asia is where the gaps, and the risks, live in its own chaotic ways.

In this session, Betty Gervasini, a Fellow Chartered Accountant and founder & CEO of HR Forte, with live payrolls running across seven Asia markets and more, cuts through the noise to show you what borderless payroll actually looks like in practice, why the "last mile" of global payroll is the hardest mile, and how a compliance-first, integration-ready model closes the gap without replacing the tools you already use.

Whether you are a business with existing or planned headcount in Asia, a global HR platform looking to close the Southeast Asia coverage gap, or a corporate services provider whose clients are asking the Asia expansion question, this session delivers a clear-eyed view of the landscape, the risks, and the model that works.