The United States, the world’s largest economy, is a global hub for innovation, business, and investment. With thriving industries including technology, healthcare, finance, energy, and advanced manufacturing, it offers significant opportunities for companies looking to expand and access new markets.
Hiring in the United States provides access to a highly skilled and diverse workforce with expertise across a wide range of sectors. Its strong business environment, world-leading innovation centres, and large talent pool make it an attractive destination for international employers.
However, navigating the country’s complex federal, state, and local employment regulations can be challenging. Partnering with an Employer of Record (EOR) simplifies compliance, payroll, benefits administration, and hiring, enabling businesses to expand into the U.S. quickly and confidently without establishing a local entity.
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Employer of Record (EOR) refers to services provided by international employment firms that legally employ workers on behalf of a client company.
These firms hold the legal responsibility for labour compliance, which is crucial when your organisation operates in a country without a formal local entity. An EOR can assist with various tasks, including:
Expanding into the United States of America can create a range of workforce and compliance challenges, particularly for businesses that do not yet have a local legal entity. The examples below highlight common obstacles organisations face when hiring, managing, and supporting employees in the country.
For businesses aiming to expand into the United States, access diverse talent pools, and unlock new revenue streams, global expansion is a powerful strategy.
Ideal for companies without an in-country entity or local HR support in the US, our Employer of Record (EOR) services cover payroll management, including gross-to-net calculation, expat visa handling, and access to Airswift-provided employee benefits.
For companies with an entity in the United States but no local HR support, we offer comprehensive solutions, including gross-to-net pay calculations, payroll reconciliations, expense and tax management, compliance reporting, tax equalisations, allowance handling, PTO tracking, employee query resolution, and HRIS management.
Our global immigration services offer complete support for employees in the United States of America. This includes business visa assistance, advisory, work permit and authorisation, application handling, and sponsorship, ensuring seamless international employee mobility.
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Employment and compliance challenges are multiplied when your costs escalate from managing multiple suppliers or recruiting HR specialists.
There is a high cost associated with opening an entity in-country. It often makes more sense to leverage another company’s footprint to ease financial burdens.
Hiring an Employer of Record in the USA enables you to work with a single entity while removing the need to maintain an expensive in-house team in the United States.
An Employer of Record organisation can provide one contact for all inquiries.
This increases efficiency and ensures issues are dealt with quickly while reducing the need to engage multiple stakeholders, freeing up time to focus on your core business functions.
As Gentari expanded into new markets without local legal entities, Airswift provided Employer of Record (EOR) services to support compliant hiring in the United States, Canada, and Germany. Airswift delivered onboarding, payroll, immigration support, employment law guidance, and HR advisory services, enabling Gentari to mobilise talent quickly and compliantly.
Following the successful onboarding of its first U.S. employee, Gentari expanded the partnership into additional markets. Through a tailored, compliance-focused approach, Airswift reduced administrative complexity, mitigated employment risks, and helped Gentari scale its global workforce efficiently while focusing on its clean energy growth ambitions.
As a higher education organisation expanded its international footprint, it required a compliant way to employ staff in countries where it had no legal entities. Airswift provided a tailored Employer of Record (EOR) solution, enabling the institution to hire and support global talent while remaining fully compliant with local employment regulations.
Acting as the legal employer, Airswift managed onboarding, payroll, immigration, benefits administration, and employment compliance, reducing the administrative burden associated with international hiring. The solution provided a cost-effective alternative to establishing local entities while ensuring employees received seamless support throughout their assignment.
By combining local expertise with global workforce capabilities, Airswift helped the organisation expand into new markets quickly and efficiently, allowing it to focus on its educational objectives while Airswift managed the complexities of international employment.
Few issues are as critical to project delivery as the identification, on-boarding and management of productive workforces. Our highly experienced team behind our talent acquisition services work directly with clients to identify their hiring needs.
Airswift understands that attracting and retaining high performing leadership teams is the key to success. These are critical hires who can influence a business to achieve financial, strategic, and commercial goals. Our executive search firm, Ducatus Partners, is led by a seasoned team of industry specialists focused on sourcing C-suite leaders.
From recruiting and mobilising entire multi discipline teams, to integrating a technology focused approach and supply-chain management, our support teams take on as much of our clients’ workforce organisation burden as possible.
Airswift has experience navigating the challenges of global expansion, managing international HR, tax and payroll challenges, finding niche and specialist talent, and restructuring and transforming organisations.
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