How GroWrk Helped Orium Scale Talent Across Latin America
Orium · Digital experience platform studio · Remote-first hiring with GroWrk
Orium at a glance
Orium (formerly MyPlanet) is a software studio with a global presence, specializing in digital experience platforms built on best-in-class technology to support seamless, data-informed journeys. Based in Toronto, Orium has grown fast — and wanted to tap into the Latin American talent pool to keep growing.
Moving to remote-first hiring meant equipping people in countries where Orium had no vendor relationships and little time to build them. GroWrk gave the team one way to procure, ship, and recover equipment across the region, so a confirmed hire never had to wait on a country-by-country setup.
A new country for every hire, and no time to prepare
Orium moved from a remote-friendly to a remote-first policy. It wanted to scale fast and benefit from opening its talent pool beyond Canada. Looking to Latin America for talent, the team faced a hard practical problem: getting equipment to new hires quickly and reliably in countries where it had no footprint.
For Orium, the most challenging parts of equipping a global team were:
- Having to source local equipment providers in each new country.
- Enabling quick delivery of equipment once a hire was confirmed.
- Establishing relationships with local partners and overcoming language barriers.
- Setting up remote employees to be compliant in their country.
- Giving new hires a great end-user experience from day one.
"We are now navigating a new set of countries with different rules and expectations. I don't need to invest in each country until I know I have a hire. At that point, I have such a short amount of time to find an outcome and a solution, which is very stressful."
One provider instead of one per country
Rather than building a vendor relationship in every market it hired in, Orium found GroWrk — and with it a single way to equip anyone, anywhere in the region:
- Cost-effective for a fast-growing studio.
- Access to over 150 countries from one platform.
- Procurement, management, taxes, shipping, and recovery of IT equipment all handled.
- No upfront country investment required before a hire is confirmed.
180+ remote employees across six countries
Orium has grown its remote workforce to more than 180 people, with employees in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Chile. Even on short notice, the team can set new hires up for success:
- Scaled to 180+ remote employees across Latin America.
- Six countries covered: Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Chile.
- New hires equipped even when notice is short.
- No local vendor search or language-barrier negotiation per country.
- Two years of device logistics running on a single platform.
Opening the talent pool beyond Canada is now a hiring decision rather than a logistics project — Orium commits to a country when it has the right candidate, not before.
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