Your registered agent is just someone in another location that is authorized to accept mail for you. That's it.

If you work remotely for a company based in New York but you live and work outside of New York, then you pay taxes as if you're a New Yorker.

Because some of a company's most sensitive and highly-regulated data flows through the HRIS, very few people get full insight into everything that’s happening in the platform. HR software is a pretty blind item. You don’t get to try before you buy. Even with the providers who give you a sandbox, it’s hard to get a true sense of performance until you have live data.