The coronavirus (COVID-19) situation is growing in urgency and Blue Marble wants to assure you that we are actively monitoring this across the globe. We are taking all necessary precautions to ensure processes are in place to provide responsiveness for you and your valued employees. Our thoughts are with you and your employees to keep everyone safe and healthy during this trying time.

We at Blue Marble Payroll are in contact with our extensive partner network to meet all client payroll needs throughout this emergency. All Blue Marble employees work remotely as part of our normal business operations, giving us the confidence that our employees can continue to work from home safely without any wide-spread disruption to service from our team.

Additionally, as part of our partner selection process, Blue Marble conducts a thorough assessment of every in-country provider in our network to ensure proper business contingency, data privacy and business continuity plans are in place. We are confident we are fully capable and that all of our providers stand ready for this emergency across our entire network. Each provider has the mechanisms in place to continue to process payroll and ensure data privacy and security through alternative means. We will continue to meet your payroll and support needs during this critical time.

There are many of you have questions regarding specific rules and regulations related to sick pay and other payroll-related concerns across all of the countries in which you operate. We are working to compile formal documented information for every country that will address the most common scenarios and questions. We will have this information ready in the coming days and will post to our website and knowledge base for you to monitor as questions arise. In the interim, our Support Team stands ready to assist you with any questions you may have.

We appreciate your continued support and remain ready to assist in any way we can throughout this situation. As this is a far-reaching, global concern we will keep all of your employees in our thoughts as we continue to weather this unprecedented situation. We share in the belief that the health and safety of people is always most important.

The Blue Marble Global Payroll Team