Global Employment Outsourcing (GEO) is a solution for companies looking to solve the various problems of overseas employment.
Companies wishing to expand their operations overseas face many when considering global employment and recruiting. Unfamiliar local labor regulations, high costs and long delays associated with setup processes, and difficulties finding the right talent to hire can form serious roadblocks when looking overseas.
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What is Global Employment Outsourcing (GEO), and How Does It Work?
GEO works by providing a local entity in your target market through which you can hire employees. This way, you can employ staff locally while avoiding the problems of incorporating a company.
A GEO provider acts as your global employer of record (EOR) in this case. These employment outsourcing services provide HR and compliance functions for your staff and take care of all related responsibilities. These responsibilities include taxes, legal administration, onboarding, payroll, and benefits management.
The specifics of how a GEO provider may act like this on your behalf may carry according to the country’s laws regarding employment. Typically, it involves the GEO provider hiring your employees on your behalf through their local entity.
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What are the 5 Greatest Benefits of Global Employment Outsourcing?
Global Compliance Assurance
Labor regulations vary significantly around the world. It is a surprise to many companies how much work is involved in overseas compliance. Minor HR errors can create potentially substantial fees and fines.
A GEO provider can offer compliance assurance in your target market to give you the peace of mind needed to succeed with growth targets.
Scalability and Flexibility
When expanding globally, you need to be ready to make the most of opportunities as they occur. A GEO provider means you can be prepared to hire or transfer staff to new markets in a matter of days for a fraction of the cost. Outsourcing your payroll alone is estimated to save you as much as 18-20% on overheads.
You can also benefit from outsourcing termination functions if you need to remove or adapt your operations.
Multiple Services Streamlined Into a Single Package
Professional GEO providers employ many specialists in all areas of global recruitment, payroll, and HR. As a result, these companies can provide you with a range of services related to HR to suit your specific requirements.
Rapid Market Entry
Company incorporation in a new country can be cumbersome, complicated, and time-consuming. You may feel tied to a process that can take months before you can even begin operations and make sense of the possibility of success.
GEO provides a way to move your staff into your target market and get to work in less than a week.
Access to Greater Global Talent Pools
Many GEO companies also act as global employment and RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing) providers. These are experienced recruiters with many resources and networks in your target market.
By partnering with a provider like this, you gain access to the best local candidates in your target market.
GEO, PEO, and EOR: What are the Differences?
When researching global employment outsourcing services, these three services will inevitably come up. While all provide ways to employ staff overseas, how they do it and where these services are available may differ.
- EOR (Employer of Record) options take full legal and official responsibility for employees by hiring them on your behalf. In these cases, a contract agreement is made directly with the employee as directed by you.
- PEO (Professional Employer Organization) options work more as “co-employment.” In these cases, the PEO provider offers HR functions for your employees, and the contract remains between you and your employee.
Here, you must already have an established presence in the country you are operating in, which may not be available in all countries.
- GEO (Global Employment Organization/Outsourcing) is a more descriptive and catch-all term. Less defined, this may describe a company that provides PEO services for companies outside of their home market if this service is a legal option in that country.
A complete understanding of the legal options available in your target market is essential to remaining fully compliant when seeking any employment outsourcing services.
How Does Globalization Affect Industry-Specific Employment Outsourcing?
As the world becomes smaller, local markets are slowly becoming one global market. Companies that wouldn’t have dreamed of operating overseas even twenty years ago now have the potential to succeed worldwide.
Often, however, these companies are unprepared for the challenges of hiring or transferring employees overseas. As a result, employment outsourcing solutions have exploded in popularity. They provide quick, safe, and efficient ways to make the most of these changes.
Whatever your industry and your target market, INS Global can act as your employment outsourcing agency to provide the expansion tools and services you need to succeed.
INS Global provides international employment outsourcing solutions with over 15 years of experience helping companies in over 80 countries succeed. Our global PEO and EOR services are industry-leading, with offices worldwide.
Contact our team of global expansion specialists today to learn more about how we can boost your success in the global market.
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