We become the legal employer of your offshore team — handling contracts, statutory contributions, labour-law compliance, and full employment liability across 40+ countries. You manage the work; we manage the risk.
Establishing a legal entity in a new country typically costs £40,000+ and takes 4–6 months. Most businesses don’t need an entity — they need people.
An Employer of Record is the legitimate, compliant shortcut: you get the team, we hold the liability, statutory contributions are made, contracts are local, and you can scale up or down without unwinding a legal structure.
Typical cost to set up a single foreign legal entity — before any hire.
Time to incorporate, register for payroll, and open compliant operations.
Time for Scaleshore to issue a fully compliant employment contract.
A quick side-by-side of the three common paths to international hiring.
Role, location, salary, start date. We confirm in-country requirements.
We issue a locally compliant employment contract within 48 hours.
Documentation, banking, tax registration, statutory enrolment — all handled.
Monthly payroll, statutory filings, HR support, and audit-ready records.
Governance is embedded into our operating model — not an add-on. Every contract is locally compliant, every payroll filing is on time, and every employee is fully insured.
Scaleshore operating principle
An EOR is a third party that legally employs people on your behalf in a country where you don’t have a registered entity. The EOR handles contracts, payroll, taxes, and statutory benefits. You manage the day-to-day work, performance, and outputs.
We currently employ across 40+ countries, with established delivery hubs in South Africa, the Philippines, India, Kenya, Egypt, Poland, and Mexico. If you need talent somewhere we’re not yet active, we can typically onboard a new country in 4–6 weeks.
Scaleshore. We are the legal employer. We hold the contract, we make statutory contributions, we carry indemnity and cyber insurance, and we manage any labour-law disputes. Your exposure is contractual to Scaleshore, not to the employee’s jurisdiction.
A contractor relationship is fundamentally different in tax and labour-law terms. Many businesses that use contractors long-term, full-time, and exclusively are misclassifying their workforce — exposing themselves to back-taxes, penalties, and IR35-type claims. EOR removes that risk by establishing a proper employment relationship.
Once role and salary are confirmed, we issue a compliant contract within 48 hours. Full onboarding — including banking, tax, and statutory enrolment — typically completes within 5 working days.
EOR pricing is a fixed monthly fee per employee, on top of salary and statutory costs. There’s no setup fee. Most clients see total costs 40–60% lower than equivalent UK or US hires. Use our cost calculator for a transparent breakdown.
