The Real Cost of Remote Teams (And How to Fix It)
Hiring Talent Without Borders—Until Benefits Become a Logistical Nightmare
Hiring top talent across borders is one of the best decisions you can make. Until you realize that providing equitable benefits to a team spread across five countries is a logistical nightmare.
The gym already has a solution: Gympass. Payroll too: Deel, Wise, you name it. But what about workspace? That's where things get messy.
Negotiating with coworking spaces in Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Madrid, and Bogotá doesn't just fail to scale—it consumes your time. Every city has its rates, contracts, payment methods. Meanwhile, your team keeps working from noisy cafés or burning through their home internet.
When Benefits Become an Operational Headache
Milagros Diez lived through it firsthand. As Senior HR at Candor Investment Group, she led a fully remote team scattered across multiple countries. She wanted to give them something valuable: access to professional workspaces whenever they needed it. Not as an obligation, but as a real option.
The problem wasn't the intention. It was the execution.
"We needed a benefit that actually added value, but without adding complexity. No endless local contracts or fixed costs that nobody might use," Milagros explains.
The question was straightforward: How do you offer freedom without losing control? How do you provide something flexible without HR juggling five different vendors?
One Dashboard, Many Countries
The answer turned out to be simpler than expected. With Desky, Candor's team has access to coworking spaces across Latin America and Europe. No country-by-country negotiations. No eternal contracts. No fixed expenses.
Everything runs from one place: one provider, one system, one dashboard. Milagros can see who uses what, when, and how much they spend. Each team member decides whether they work from home, a café, or a coworking space with solid connectivity and meeting rooms.
And at month's end, Candor pays only for what the team actually used. Nothing more.
What Changed (Besides the Budget)
"Now I can give my entire team a benefit they actually use: budget, freedom to choose where to work, and a streamlined experience for HR. It's a competitive advantage for any remote team."
Milagros Diez – Sr HR | Candor Investment Group
And she's right. Because the impact goes beyond operations:
The team has real autonomy. It's not a benefit imposed from above. It's a tool each person uses when they need it, how they need it.
HR gets time back. No manual management across countries. No scattered invoices. No need to manually approve every booking.
The numbers add up. Complete visibility of consumption, configurable permissions per person, and automatic budget optimization. You only pay for what gets used.
Attracting talent becomes easier. In a market where everyone offers "remote work," providing genuinely flexible spaces makes a difference.
The Benefit Your Team Actually Chooses to Use
In the end, it's not just about having the option to work from a coworking space. It's about the benefit making sense for those who receive it—and being viable for those who manage it.
Candor made it work. And they did it without losing control, without blowing the budget, and without HR negotiating contracts in three languages.
Sometimes, the best competitive advantage is simply doing things right.
FAQs on Remote Team Benefits
How do you manage benefits for teams in different countries?
The key is centralization. Using platforms that unify management eliminates the need to negotiate with local vendors in each country and allows you to maintain complete budget visibility.
What benefits do remote teams value most?
Autonomy and flexibility. Benefits that each person can use when and how they need them have higher adoption rates than top-down mandates.
Is it cost-effective to offer coworking spaces to distributed teams?
Yes, when you pay only for actual usage. Pay-per-use models eliminate sunk costs and let you optimize your budget based on your team's real needs.
About the author: This article was developed by the Desky team, a flexible workspace platform for remote teams in Latin America and Europe.
Last updated: February 2026