Malaysia offers a vibrant mix of opportunities for businesses looking to expand in Asia. As the 38th largest economy, it boasts a diverse and skilled talent pool, particularly in technology, engineering, finance, and manufacturing. Its young, educated workforce complements a dynamic consumer market, making it a hub for innovation and growth.
Strategically located in Asia, Malaysia ensures seamless coordination across time zones, benefiting companies managing regional teams. With ambitious renewable energy targets—29% of electricity generation from solar and hydropower by 2030—it’s an ideal destination for energy and tech innovators.
To navigate Malaysia’s labour laws and tax complexities, partnering with an Employer of Record (EOR) simplifies hiring and compliance, allowing businesses to focus on growth and long-term success.
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An Employer of Record (EOR) is an international employment agency that legally employs workers on behalf of a client company.
They are responsible for overseeing employment compliance for businesses operating in a country without a registered local body. An EOR can assist with several tasks, including:
Ideal for companies without an in-country entity or local HR support in Malaysia, our Employer of Record (EOR) services cover payroll management, including gross-to-net calculation, expat visa handling, and acccess to Airswift-provided employee benefits.
For companies with an entity in Malaysia 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 Malaysia. 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 Malaysia enables you to work with a single entity while removing the need to maintain an expensive in-house team.
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.
The Tyra gas field in the Danish North Sea plays a crucial role in Denmark’s energy infrastructure, supporting its low-carbon energy transition. As part of a major redevelopment effort, the client embarked on a complex construction project involving components sourced globally, including Spain, Italy, Indonesia, and Singapore. To ensure smooth operations and regulatory compliance, they needed a workforce solutions partner with deep regional expertise.
Airswift was selected to manage workforce solutions across multiple countries, ensuring compliance with immigration laws and providing seamless global employment outsourcing and payroll services. By handling expatriation, repatriation, and day-to-day workforce challenges, Airswift enabled efficient personnel management across the project’s international sites.
Through effective coordination and support, Airswift ensured timely workforce deployment, helping the Tyra redevelopment project advance Denmark’s energy goals while strengthening connections across Southeast Asia.
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Since 2017, Airswift has been a key partner for Aramco Overseas, supporting its expansion in Europe and Malaysia by addressing challenges related to local compliance and employment laws. Airswift provided contract recruitment, global mobility, and payroll services, enabling seamless operations in the UK, Spain, Italy, and Malaysia.
Airswift managed a peak headcount of 100 contractors across multiple projects and was recognized as Aramco’s top agency in 2019, with the partnership extended through 2022. Their in-country expertise ensured efficient project execution and compliance with local regulations.
This collaboration has strengthened Aramco's operational capabilities, positioning Airswift as a leader in global workforce solutions for the oil and gas industry. With future projects planned, Airswift remains committed to supporting Aramco's strategic growth in Europe and beyond.
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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