Multi-Country GCC Payroll — Why One Bureau Per Country Breaks

Most GCC multi-country operators run a separate payroll bureau in each country they operate in, producing monthly outputs in different formats and separate compliance logs. Fragmentation scales super-linearly with country count: two countries double the work, four countries quadruple it, and by six countries the operational load exceeds the benefit of having local providers. The breakpoint is not payroll volume — it is senior time spent reconciling outputs that should have been one file.