International hiring guides

Everything you need to hire compliantly across borders, explained simply, with sources.

The direct answer

These guides explain how to hire employees internationally through an Employer of Record (EOR), a company that legally employs your staff abroad so you can hire without opening a local entity. Start with what an EOR is and how it works, then compare it with the two models people most often confuse it with: a PEO (which co-employs staff where you already have an entity) and a staffing agency (which recruits and supplies temporary workers). From there, the cost guide and free calculator break down the all-in price of a hire, provider fee plus salary plus statutory employer contributions, and the provider comparison ranks the major EOR platforms on rating and coverage. Every guide is written in plain English, kept vendor-neutral, and backed by cited sources, so you can make a compliant hiring decision quickly and defend it to finance and legal.