Sweden, one of Europe's most innovative and competitive economies, offers significant opportunities for businesses, driven by strengths in technology, advanced manufacturing, life sciences, renewable energy, and engineering. The country continues to invest in digitalisation, sustainability, and research and development, creating an attractive environment for business growth and expansion.
With a highly educated, skilled workforce in engineering, technology, life sciences, and manufacturing, Sweden serves as a strategic gateway to the Nordic region, providing access to highly developed markets.
Navigating Sweden's regulatory landscape is easier with an Employer of Record (EOR), ensuring compliance with employment laws and tax requirements, allowing businesses to focus on growth and success.
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 Sweden, 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 Sweden 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 Sweden. 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 Sweden 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.
Airswift has partnered with Stegra to support the development of one of Europe's largest green steel and hydrogen projects in northern Sweden. Facing local talent shortages and the challenges of attracting international workers to a remote location, Stegra relied on Airswift's expertise in global recruitment, mobility, and workforce compliance.
As a trusted workforce partner, Airswift sourced and mobilised skilled professionals from more than 30 countries, providing compliant employment, immigration, and contractor management solutions. Through its Employer of Record and workforce management capabilities, Airswift simplified the hiring and onboarding of international talent while ensuring compliance with Swedish regulations.
To date, Airswift has supported over 100 hires, mobilised more than 45 expatriates to Sweden, and manages professionals across 15 countries. By enabling rapid access to critical talent and reducing administrative complexity, Airswift continues to help Stegra scale its operations and advance its vision for sustainable steel production.
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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