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With an estimated 90 million self-employed employees by 2028 within the U.S. alone, present employment and HR know-how toolsets are both out-of-date or non-existent for this inhabitants of employees. Historically, these toolsets have been designed towards firms as the first ‘buyer’.

Due to this, many freelancers at the moment nonetheless wrestle with offering proof of earnings for key financial transactions and securing inexpensive but premium advantages like medical insurance and group 401K.

Opolis was birthed within the imaginative and prescient of a extra equal employment framework. A platform that brings instruments and infrastructure to impartial employees in order that they have the liberty to decide on the best way they wish to work. 

Opolis is an easy-to-use built-in platform designed to assist impartial employees preserve freedom and adaptability whereas replicating the security and safety of a conventional W2 job. Right here’s why members love the platform:

1. Skilled transformation: Opolis guides freelancers and impartial employees by way of the method of making their enterprise entities and professionalizing their companies.
2. Elevated productiveness: Opolis assumes the executive burden of calculating and remitting quarterly taxes and automating payroll, so freelancers can concentrate on what they do greatest – constructing their enterprise.
3. Monetary health and safety: Opolis offers entry to premium advantages often reserved for W2 employees, similar to group medical, dental, and imaginative and prescient insurance coverage, well being and retirement financial savings choices, unemployment, incapacity, and even life insurance coverage.

Freelancers and impartial employees of all industries can discover membership with Opolis. Changing into a member is fast and straightforward:

1. Be a freelancer or impartial employee licensed to work within the U.S. Sadly, we don’t presently present providers in Arizona or Michigan, however hope to increase to those areas quickly.
2. Arrange an ‘S’ Corp or ‘C’ Corp. 

This step not solely helps professionalize your corporation together with your purchasers however is critical in order that Opolis can function your entity’s Employer of Report (EoR).

3. Run payroll by way of Opolis. 

That is legally needed with the intention to entry our group healthcare choices. It is useful as you’ll acquire entry to proof of earnings like bi-monthly paystubs and annual W2s.

Opolis’ imaginative and prescient is a world the place impartial employees have the chance to manage their employment and have accessible and easy-to-use instruments to take action.