Case studies
Real companies.
Real numbers.
Real outcomes.
How real companies hire across borders, graduate from EOR, and decide when to open their own entity.

Seven engagements. Real numbers.
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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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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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
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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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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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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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, named specialists 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 bar-admitted 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.
Talk to a Teamed strategistLast verified 2026-05-15