How does an Employer of Record help with compliance?

An Employer of Record assumes legal responsibility for employment compliance in every country where it operates. It manages local labor law, employment contracts, income tax and social-security deductions, and visa and work-permit processing, ensuring your workforce is mobilised legally while reducing the risk of non-compliance and operational errors. With local specialists across 60 regional offices and 40 years of experience, Airswift keeps your workforce compliant wherever you operate.

How quickly can I enter a new market with an Employer of Record?

Because an EOR already has a legal entity in-country, you can begin hiring without the months-long process of incorporating your own entity. Airswift can onboard international hires and have them ready to work within 72 hours, letting you enter new markets quickly while we handle payroll, contracts and compliance.

PEO vs EOR: What is the difference?

A PEO (Professional Employer Organisation) co-employs staff under your own legal entity, so you remain the legal employer and must already be registered in-country. An EOR (Employer of Record) becomes the full legal employer on your behalf, so you can hire in countries where you have no entity. Use a PEO when you already have a local entity and want to share HR administration; use an EOR when you have no entity and need to hire compliantly without setting one up.

How does an Employer of Record reduce hiring costs?

Opening a legal entity in a new country is expensive and slow. An EOR lets you use an existing in-country footprint instead, working with a single provider rather than managing multiple suppliers or building an in-house HR and payroll team. This consolidates compliance, payroll and benefits administration under one point of contact, lowering cost and freeing you to focus on your core business.

Which countries does Airswift provide Employer of Record?

Airswift provides Employer of Record services globally, supported by 60 regional offices and 40 years of experience across Africa, Asia Pacific, the Caspian, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North America.

Can an Employer of Record help me hire and manage remote employees?

Absolutely. Some of the remote working challenges an EOR can solve include: Advising on notice periods and contracts, Assisting with legal documentation and tax filings, Providing in-country worker support.

Global workforce solutions

What integrated workforce solutions actually mean?

Staffing a technical project across borders comes down to one question: can a single partner recruit the specialists you need, employ them compliantly where the work takes place, mobilise them across borders, and scale your workforce up or down as project demands change?

Most providers handle only one piece of that process, leaving you to coordinate multiple vendors and manage the risks between them.

Airswift brings recruitment, Employer of Record, global mobility, payroll, and compliance together under one roof, providing a single accountable partner for the entire workforce lifecycle.

With 40 years of experience in energy, engineering, and technology, a network of more than 60 offices worldwide, and over 9,000 contractors mobilised each year, we manage everything from sourcing and onboarding through to payroll, relocation, compliance, and eventual demobilisation.

What Airswift handles on your behalf

Recruitment

We source and place engineers and technical specialists for both permanent and contract roles.

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Employer of Record

We appear as your legal employer, handling payroll, benefits and tax management for locations where you have no entity.

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Global Mobility

Rather than having to work with an external immigration firm, our global mobility division supports visa and work permit applications, relocation and assignment management.

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Compliance

Our in-country advisors and consultants ensure that your business is compliant with local employment and tax laws to minimise risk of non-compliance.

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Payroll

Instead of enlisting a third-party provider, Airswift handles your contractor and employee payroll, tax deductions, statutory contributions and compliant payments across countries.

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Why do the world's leading energy and engineering firms trust Airswift?

You can find recruiters, payroll providers, EOR specialists and talent consultants almost anywhere. What is harder to find is a partner that combines those capabilities with 40 years of sector expertise.

Airswift has worked in energy, engineering and technology for four decades, which means our recruiters understand the roles, and our mobility teams understand the realities of moving technical people into demanding locations.

We map talent against project needs using market data, not just a database, and we back it with the scale to deliver across more than 60 offices and over 9,000 contractors mobilised every year.

That experience shows up where it counts. Major operators across energy and engineering trust Airswift to crew complex, multi-country projects.

"Their knowledge of international employment, taxation and visas has been vital in helping us secure the key talent our project depended on."

HR & Talent Acquisition Manager, Stegra

Recruitment & Employer of Record under one roof

Can one company both find the talent and employ it?

This is the question we hear most often and the answer is yes.

Airswift recruits the specialists your project needs, then acts as their legal employer wherever they are based, so you never have to hand off between a recruiter and a separate employment provider.

The combined model earns its keep when you are moving fast or entering a market where you have no presence.

You identify the skills, we find the people, and we employ and pay them compliantly from day one. If you only need part of the service, that works too.

Use our recruitment teams on their own, or place workers you have already sourced onto our Employer of Record.

"I can’t overemphasise how important Airswift was to our success. They were our recruiting function until we hired our Talent Manager, and Airswift helped us find him. So, almost all of the growth that we had was coming through Airswift. They marketed us to the right people, reaching out to over 5,000 people and helped us hire 26 new employees."

Meg Manlove VP of People & Culture, 8 Rivers

Mobilising an entire workforce compliantly

Moving one person to a new country is an admin task. Mobilising a whole project team is a different challenge, and it is where deployments stall.

Every country has its own rules on the right to work, employment, payroll, tax and benefits, and they all have to line up before people travel.

Airswift manages that detail in each location. We arrange visas and work permits set up compliant local employment, run payroll and tax correctly, and plan an orderly demobilisation for when the project winds down.

Because we work through in-country teams rather than a head office checklist, we know how the rules are actually applied on the ground, not just how they read on paper.

"Airswift gave excellent help with the whole process, from visa, flights to medical transportation. Everyone has been very helpful and welcoming. A great team all around. Airswift is an excellent organisation."

Chevron

Hire across borders without setting up an entity

Setting up a legal entity in a new country is slow and costly, and for a project with a fixed lifespan it rarely makes sense.

Our Employer of Record service is the alternative. Airswift becomes the legal employer in-country, so you can hire, pay and deploy people in weeks rather than the months an entity takes, then exit cleanly when the work is done.

You direct the day-to-day work, and we hold the employment, the payroll and the compliance.

"I have always found Airswift to be very responsive, helpful and knowledgeable. We have used Airswift specifically to facilitate talent needs in countries where we have not had an entity or where we have had a need for specific workforce assistance that Airswift can provide."

Worley

Built for the full project lifecycle

Technical projects do not have flat staffing needs. They build through design and construction, peak at commissioning, settle into operations, then wind down.

Airswift supports the whole curve. We help plan and recruit early, mobilise the bulk of the workforce as the project scales, keep everyone employed and compliant through delivery, and demobilise in an orderly way at the end.

The same partner stays with the project from design through to handover, so nothing slips as the workforce changes shape. We do this across the sectors where the work is hardest to crew: oil and gas, renewables, nuclear, power, chemicals, mining and metals, infrastructure, engineering and technology.

"Airswift understood our goals and delivered more than expected ahead of schedule. In short, the Airswift team has been great to work with all the way. From the first contact to after the project was finished. We will not hesitate to use them again."

General Manager, Maersk Supply Service

Scope your project workforce

Tell us where you are hiring and what the project needs, and our team will map out how to recruit, employ and mobilise the workforce compliantly.

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Yes. Airswift recruits technical specialists and can also act as their legal employer through our Employer of Record service.

A single partner sources your people and then employs, pays and keeps them compliant, so you do not have to coordinate a separate recruiter and employment provider.

Compliant mobilisation comes down to handling five things in every country: the right to work, a compliant employment arrangement, correct payroll and tax, local benefits, and a clean exit plan. Airswift manages all five in each location through in-country teams, so project teams deploy on schedule and scale down without loose ends.

Yes. Through Employer of Record, Airswift becomes the legal employer in-country on your behalf. You can hire, pay and deploy people without establishing your own entity, which usually means going live in weeks rather than months and exiting cleanly when the project ends.

A staffing agency finds candidates and hands them over. An integrated workforce partner finds them and then employs, mobilizes, pays and keeps them compliant across borders. Airswift covers the whole workforce lifecycle under one agreement, rather than just the initial hire.

Megaprojects need a partner who can recruit, employ, mobilise and demobilise large teams across several countries at once, under one point of accountability.

An integrated model suits them better than separate vendors, because it removes the handoffs and keeps compliance consistent as the workforce scales up and down.

I have always found Airswift to be very responsive, helpful and knowledgeable. We have used Airswift specifically to facilitate talent needs in countries where we have not had an entity or where we have had a need for specific workforce assistance that Airswift can provide.

Airswift have been extremely helpful to me and the Chamber Board in supporting Chamber activities and indeed have offered us great support with projects for our wider clientele. We hold the team at Airswift in high regard for their professionalism and diligence, but more importantly for the friendliness and willingness that they have shown towards us.

They successfully sourced, onboarded and managed a large workforce. Airswift's local knowledge and experience in the UAE market, combined with an intertwined cross-regional approach to project support, have been vital in ensuring the success of the project to date.

The person I dealt with was a stand out because they were extremely helpful and efficient in getting information so quickly. They have been very warm, gracious and professional.

Talent Acquisition

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.

Executive & Board Search

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.

RPO & Managed Solutions

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.

Workforce Consulting

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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Global Workforce Solutions for Energy & Engineering Projects

What integrated workforce solutions actually mean?

What Airswift handles on your behalf

Recruitment

Employer of Record

Global Mobility

Compliance

Payroll

Why Airswift for technical workforces?

Why do the world's leading energy and engineering firms trust Airswift?

Recruitment & Employer of Record under one roof

Mobilising an entire workforce compliantly

Hire across borders without setting up an entity

Built for the full project lifecycle

Scope your project workforce

Frequently Asked Questions

Can one company provide both recruitment and Employer of Record services?

How do you mobilise talent compliantly across multiple countries?

Can you hire and pay workers in another country without setting up a legal entity?

What is the difference between a staffing agency and an integrated workforce partner?

Which workforce solution is best for energy and engineering megaprojects?

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