Employer of Record Service
Hire Employees Across 40+ Countries. No Entity Required.
RecruitGo legally employs your team across Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. We handle payroll, compliance, and every local obligation. Employees onboarded in days, not months.
When does an EOR make sense?
An employer of record lets you hire full-time employees in another country without setting up a local entity. You manage the work. We handle everything else.
Testing a new market
You want 1 to 5 people in the Philippines or Indonesia before committing to a full entity. EOR lets you hire this week and scale to your own company later if the market proves out. No upfront registration. No 3-month setup wait.
Building a distributed team
Your developers are in Vietnam, support team in the Philippines, and designer in Colombia. You do not need a company in each country. One EOR partner across all of them. Single invoice. Unified compliance.
Hiring someone fast
A critical role cannot wait 2 to 4 months for entity registration. Through EOR, RecruitGo onboards your employee in as few as 5 business days in most markets, with full compliance from day one.
Hire in 40+ countries
Each country page covers employment law, costs, compliance, and the full hiring process.
Southeast Asia
6 countriesPhilippines
English-proficient talent pool with the deepest operational team in our network. The most popular market for customer support, virtual assistants, and tech roles.
Indonesia
ASEAN's largest economy with 280M+ people. Growing tech talent in Jakarta, Bandung, and Bali. Complex BPJS, THR, and severance compliance.
Vietnam
Fast-growing IT sector in HCMC and Hanoi. Competitive salaries with strong engineering talent and expanding digital economy.
Malaysia
Multilingual workforce (English, Malay, Mandarin). Strategic hub between Singapore and Indonesia. EPF + SOCSO + EIS obligations.
Thailand
Regional hub with deep talent in Bangkok. Social Security Fund and provident fund compliance handled through our local team.
Singapore
Asia's business hub with premium talent market. Minimal compliance complexity. CPF contributions and straightforward employment law.
South Asia
2 countriesIndia
World's largest talent pool for technology and engineering. Complex state-level compliance. Exceptionally cost-effective for skilled roles.
Pakistan
Rapidly emerging tech market with very competitive costs. Growing freelance-to-EOR conversion as companies formalize remote work.
East Asia
2 countriesHong Kong
Global financial center with territorial tax system. Zero capital gains tax. Offshore profit exemptions, family office frameworks, and simple employment compliance. Strong for APAC holding structures.
Taiwan
Asia's semiconductor capital. Complex tiered overtime system, Labor Insurance, NHI with dependent loading, and mandatory 6% pension. Year-end bonus deeply customary.
Latin America
5 countriesColombia
US-aligned time zones. Strong tech talent in Bogota and Medellin. Employer costs run roughly 40% on top of base salary.
Brazil
Most complex labor law in Latin America. CLT framework requires 13th salary, FGTS fund, and vacation bonus. Total costs run 40-50% above base.
Argentina
Top LATAM tech talent. Strong unions with sector-wide CBAs. Mandatory aguinaldo (13th month), generous severance, and employer costs of 35-46% above gross.
Peru
Two mandatory gratificaciones (13th + 14th month), CTS severance fund, and EsSalud health contributions. Strong talent in Lima with US-aligned time zones (UTC-5).
Chile
OECD member with lowest employer burden in LATAM (~11%). Unique gratificacion legal (profit-sharing), progressive workweek reduction to 40hrs by 2028, and pension reform adding employer contributions through 2033.
What your EOR handles
You manage the people. We manage everything underneath.
Employment contracts
Locally compliant contracts drafted under each country's labor law. Fixed-term or permanent, in the right language, with the right terms.
Payroll processing
Monthly calculation, tax withholding, salary disbursement in local currency. All statutory deductions and employer contributions included.
Social security
BPJS in Indonesia, CPF in Singapore, EPF in Malaysia, PF in India. We register employees, calculate contributions, and file on time.
Tax compliance
Employer-side withholding, filing, and reporting. PPh 21 in Indonesia, PAYE in Singapore, or whatever the local system requires.
Statutory benefits
Mandatory bonuses (THR, 13th month), severance provisions, paid leave, and all legally required insurance and pension contributions.
Full employee lifecycle
Onboarding through offboarding. Offer letters, regulatory registration, leave tracking, termination compliance, and final pay calculation.
Start hiring in 3 steps
Tell us who and where
Share the role, country, salary range, and start date. We confirm compliance requirements and return a full cost breakdown within 24 hours.
We onboard your employee
RecruitGo signs the contract, registers for social security and tax, sets up payroll, and completes all mandatory reporting. 5 to 10 business days.
You manage, we administer
Your employee works for you, reports to you, is part of your team. We run payroll, file taxes, manage benefits. You get one invoice.
Compare markets at a glance
Choosing where to hire? Here is how our key markets stack up on the factors that matter most.
| 🇵🇭Philippines | 🇮🇩Indonesia | 🇻🇳Vietnam | 🇮🇳India | 🇦🇪UAE | 🇨🇴Colombia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Onboarding | ~5 days | ~7 days | ~7 days | ~5-7 days | ~5-7 days | ~5-7 days |
| Employer cost above salary | ~12-15% | ~15-20% | ~20-25% | ~15-20% | ~8-12% | ~35-45% |
| Compliance complexity | Moderate | High | Mod-High | High | Moderate | High |
| English proficiency | High | Low-Mod | Low-Mod | High | High | Moderate |
| Best for | Support, VAs, finance, dev | Tech, ops, large teams | Tech, manufacturing | Tech, engineering, ops | Sales, BD, regional HQ | Nearshore tech, design |
| Timezone vs US EST | +12-13h | +12-13h | +12h | +10.5h | +9h | 0h (EST) |
| Min. wage (monthly) | ~$330 | ~$250-400 | ~$200-250 | ~$180-250 | None | ~$300 |
Approximations based on typical scenarios. Actual costs depend on salary level, location within the country, and role type.
Built for emerging markets, not assembled from partnerships
Own-entity operations
In our core markets, RecruitGo employs your team under our own registered legal entities. No silent sub-contractors. No middlemen. When your employee has a payroll question, our local team answers it directly.
Regional depth, not global breadth
We do not claim 150 countries. We focus on the markets where we have real operational teams. That means deeper compliance knowledge, faster issue resolution, and people who actually understand the local employment landscape.
Part of the Emerhub Group
RecruitGo is part of Emerhub Group, which has been helping foreign companies operate in Southeast Asia since 2011. When your team outgrows EOR, we handle the entity setup too. One partner from first hire to full operations.
Common questions
What companies ask most when evaluating EOR for the first time.
EOR pricing includes a per-employee management fee plus actual employment costs (salary, taxes, social security, mandatory benefits). RecruitGo's management fees start from $49.99/employee/month in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East. Employer costs on top of salary range from roughly 8% in the UAE to 50% in Brazil depending on statutory requirements.
A staffing agency finds and places candidates temporarily. An EOR permanently employs people you have already selected. A PEO co-employs workers where you already have an entity. If you do not have a legal entity in the target country, you need an EOR.
You do. RecruitGo's contracts include IP assignment clauses transferring all work product ownership to your company. This should be non-negotiable with any EOR provider you evaluate.
Yes. Many companies start with EOR to test a market, then register their own entity when the team grows. Through our parent company Emerhub Group, we handle entity setup and employee transfers when you are ready.
5 to 10 business days in most markets from signed agreement to the employee's first working day. Philippines and Singapore are typically fastest. Indonesia and Brazil take slightly longer due to registration requirements.
Termination rules vary dramatically by country. In Indonesia, severance is legally mandated and can be significant. In the UAE, end-of-service gratuity applies. RecruitGo handles the full termination process in compliance with local law, including calculating and paying all required amounts.
