An Employer of Record (EOR) is a third-party entity that takes full responsibility for the employment of an individual on behalf of another company.
Under an EOR employees are not “co-employed” like they are with a Professional Employer Organization (PEO). An EOR acts as a legal employer, hiring an employee to perform services for a different company.
At Oyster, we provide EOR services through our platform. As an EOR, Oyster is the legal employer of our customers' employees and as such, Oyster is responsible for:
In countries where Oyster does not have a direct entity, we use trusted Employer of Record Vendors to manage workers employed there. In these cases, the vendor is the legal employer.
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