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Real companies.
Real numbers.
Real outcomes.

How real companies hire across borders, graduate from EOR, and decide when to open their own entity.

A stack of VHS tapes, their spines hand-labelled with Teamed case studies: MyTutor, Tekever, City Relay and Luganodes.

Seven engagements. Real numbers.

An illustration of City Relay's short-term-rental management app

City Relay

London property management · award-winning short-term-rental specialist

From 2 in Spain to 10 in the Philippines.

How a London property-management firm scaled an 80% global team across Spain and the Philippines without opening foreign entities.

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The CT (Chiene + Tait) team outside their office

CT

Scottish chartered accountancy · audit and business advisory

South Africa and Australia hires, no foreign entity.

A Scottish chartered accountancy firm extended cross-border hiring into South Africa and Australia on EOR: no entities, full compliance.

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The Data Science Talent team

Data Science Talent

UK boutique recruitment · 20 professionals across UK / India / South Africa

A South Africa BD hire without the entity overhead.

A 20-person UK recruitment firm closed a South African business-development hire on a tight timeline: 100% compliance, zero in-house legal lift.

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Dyke Yaxley trainees reviewing audit work together

Dyke Yaxley

UK chartered accountancy · 100+ years history

100% audit capacity, zero entity setup.

A century-old UK accountancy doubled audit capacity by hiring abroad on EOR, without opening foreign entities or absorbing compliance risk.

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The Luganodes institutional-staking dashboard

Luganodes

Web3 institutional staking · infrastructure operator

50% global Web3 workforce growth.

A Web3 institutional staking operator scaled a globally-distributed engineering and operations team by 50% on EOR, across multiple jurisdictions, on one platform.

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An illustration of MyTutor's online tutoring community

MyTutor

UK education technology · 1:1 and 3:1 online tutoring platform

Keep the engineer when she moves to Spain.

A UK edtech retained a key engineer through an international relocation to Spain: same role, same employment continuity, full Spanish compliance on EOR.

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A Tekever autonomous aircraft in flight over mountains

Tekever

IT, aerospace & defence · Lisbon HQ, global delivery

A workforce revolution from Lisbon.

A Lisbon-headquartered IT, aerospace, and defence firm built a global delivery workforce on EOR, moving fast on jurisdictions where entity setup wasn’t the right call.

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Common questions

  • How long does it actually take to hire in a new country via an EOR?
    Days to a few weeks once contracts are signed, depending on the country. Data Science Talent closed a South Africa BD hire on a tight customer-set recruitment deadline despite overlapping annual leave. City Relay scaled an 80% global team across Spain and the Philippines with no foreign entity. The bottleneck is rarely the EOR; it's the candidate's notice period and local document collection.
  • At what headcount should we stop using an EOR and open our own entity?
    Country-dependent: typically 15–25 employees in a single country at average salary. Some Teamed customers stay on EOR well past that because the math still works: CT operates cross-border into South Africa and Australia on EOR with no entity in either; Luganodes grew its global Web3 workforce 50% on EOR across multiple jurisdictions. Run your own numbers in the Crossover Calculator at /tools/crossover-calculator; salary mix, benefits load, and statutory specifics all move the threshold.
  • What does the EOR experience look like for the employee?
    Same employer-of-record experience as a local hire: local-language contract, statutory benefits, payroll in local currency, employment continuity protected. MyTutor retained a key engineer through her relocation from the UK to Spain (same role, same employment continuity, full Spanish compliance) without re-hiring her as a contractor or onboarding her into a new company.
  • Can one EOR agreement cover multiple countries?
    Yes: one MSA, one invoice, a real specialist per jurisdiction. City Relay runs employees in Spain and the Philippines under a single Teamed agreement. CT runs cross-border hiring into South Africa and Australia the same way. The agreement covers as many countries as you need; the specialist on each call is the one with deep employment-law expertise in the jurisdiction in question.

More case studies on the way.

We're writing up a half-dozen more: France graduation at headcount 14, Brazil EOR-only at 22, Singapore entity straight from kickoff. If you'd like an early look, or to be one of the next case studies, let's talk.

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Last verified 2026-05-15