How a growing IT company reduced complexity by turning to a single, global EOR provider

An employer of record (EOR) lets companies employ international workers without setting up a local entity in their countries. For a growing business with a distributed team, the right EOR partner can also simplify operations, reduce complexity, and give employees stability wherever they are based.

Here’s how one growing IT company consolidated its EOR support under a single provider, Safeguard Global, and enhanced a five-year partnership that spans multiple countries.

Challenge

Eliminate the operational complexity of a dual-EOR-vendor model

The company relied on a dual-EOR-vendor model to support its internationally distributed workforce. But managing employment across multiple countries and more than one provider added operational and employment-law complexity. To reduce that complexity and maintain continuity for its employees, the business decided to consolidate EOR support under one vendor.

Solution

A single, proven EOR partner

To reduce the complexity of the dual-EOR-vendor model and to provide greater continuity for its employees, the company began to move away from this model in 2024.

It determined that moving to a single EOR vendor would eliminate the coordination challenges, occasional overlap, and communication issues that came from its use of two EOR vendors. It would also create a more consistent employee experience and promote greater unity within its growing international workforce.

With its planned growth trajectory in mind, the company felt that the EOR provider with hundreds of in-country experts and the ability to hire across nearly 190 countries made the most sense. It chose Safeguard Global.

Working closely with the customer, the Safeguard Global team:

• Managed the transfer of the company’s EOR employees from its previous provider through a dedicated onboarding team, with weekly working calls throughout
• Employs and supports the company’s EOR workforce across all seven countries, so its HR leadership can coordinate international employment through one provider and one point of contact rather than two
• Gives employees direct access to local, in-country HR support in their home country
• Acts as the legal employer in each country, taking on local employment-law compliance so the company’s HR team does not have to monitor, interpret, or adapt to employment legislation across seven jurisdictions
• Supports flexible, low-risk hiring in new countries as the business grows, without the company needing to set up local entities

Results

A simpler EOR model, built on a long-term partnership

Safeguard Global now supports 42 active EOR employees across seven countries as the company's single provider — the latest chapter in a partnership that began in 2021. Consolidating EOR support under one provider has simplified operations, reduced complexity, and given the business a stable foundation to keep growing its international team at the right pace.