Robbin Schuchmann

I studied Business Administration at Windesheim in Zwolle. In 2019 I came to Bali to do my graduation internship and wrote my thesis from a co-working space here. I finished in June, went back to the Netherlands briefly, and then moved to Bali for good.

A company had arranged that internship, and the service was poor enough that it bothered me for months. Everything you needed to know about going abroad sat behind someone charging you for it. So a business partner and I built InternshipAbroad.nl and gave the information away for free, so that going abroad was open to anyone who wanted it.

It grew past being a website. We ended up placing students with companies internationally, a student in the Netherlands who wanted to go to Spain or Bali, and us making that work. I stepped away in 2025.

Running it taught me the thing I now work on full time. Placing an intern in another country is hard for reasons that have nothing to do with the intern: visas, local labour law, and the fact that a foreign company usually cannot legally employ someone without an entity there. It took me longer than it should have to notice that this is the same problem remote hiring has. If you want to hire someone in a country where you have no entity, you either set one up or you use an employer of record. That is how I ended up here.

Now I research the providers themselves. I co-founded Employ Borderless with Paul Jansen in 2024 because every source we could find on EOR was either out of date or written to sell something, and we wanted an honest one. EOR Overview, Payroll Overview, and EOR Select followed. I also publish open-access research on how cross-border employment actually works, because most of what is written about it is marketing.

I am from Apeldoorn and I work from Sanur, Bali.