An EOR (Employer of Record) employee is hired through Outstaffer's legal entity in their country. Outstaffer becomes their legal employer and handles the employment contract, payroll and local compliance, while they work for your company. Choose this when your company doesn't have its own entity in the employee's country.
If your company does have an entity there, add them as a direct employee instead. See How to Add a Direct Employee, or Direct Employee or EOR Employee: Which Should I Choose?
Before you start
Only Account Owner users can start adding an employee.
To send the offer at the end, you need two-factor authentication set up and your company details complete. See How to Set Up Your Company Account.
Add the employee
Click Add an employee on your dashboard. The Add a new hire form opens. Click Save and continue to move to the next step, or Back to return to the previous one. Your progress is saved as a draft each time you continue.
Employee type. Under Are you employing them through Outstaffer's entity or your own?, click Select under EOR Employee. On the same step you can turn on the optional Finalisation Service if you want Outstaffer to close the offer with your candidate. See What Is the Candidate Finalisation Service?
Employment eligibility. Choose the Country the employee lives in (and the state for Australia). Under Employment Eligibility, say whether they're a citizen, a permanent or temporary resident, or choose Not sure, I'd like a pre-hire assessment or I would like Outstaffer to assist with obtaining the right to work.
New hire details. Enter their First name, Last name, Email and Phone number. These are used for onboarding and appear in their employment agreement, and the offer goes to this email.
Role information. Enter the Hiring status, Job title, Job description, Work Schedule and Preferred start date. Managed by is set to you; change it to the person who will manage the employee in the platform. If that person belongs to more than one group, choose the Group. Then fill in the Direct Manager Information.
Contract details. Set the Employment duration (and the Contract end date for a fixed term), the base salary, any Signing bonus, Other bonuses, Commission, Remote work expenses or Other allowances, and the employee's leave entitlement.
Pricing plan. EOR is selected by default. You can choose EOR AI instead: it's the EOR plan with Upskill with AI included, a structured programme that builds the employee's AI skills in their first 12 weeks and keeps them current after that, with progress reports to you. EOR AI stays the plan for that employee for as long as they're employed through Outstaffer. Each plan shows its price per employee. Under Equipment, choose whether Outstaffer supplies a managed laptop and accessories, and add any software, membership or welcome kit add-ons. See Equipment-as-a-Service (EaaS).
Benefits. Choose the employee's health insurance option and any add-ons.
Total employment costs. Check the full cost breakdown: salary, employer contributions, plan and any add-ons.
Review and send. The review page shows every section of the offer. Click the edit icon on a section to go back and change it. When everything is right, click Send offer, then Send offer again to confirm.
If you can't click Send offer
The review page shows a banner for anything still missing, and Send offer stays greyed out until it's done.
Set up 2FA: click Set up and add an authenticator app to your login.
Almost there — just one step before you can approve: your company details are incomplete. Click Complete company setup and fill in the missing details.
Not ready to send yet? Click Save as draft. The new hire stays under People > Onboarding with the status Hire - draft, and you can open it to carry on.
What happens next
You'll see Staff member created, and the new hire moves to People > Onboarding with the status Offer - sent. Outstaffer invites them to the platform to review and accept the offer, then runs the local pre-employment and onboarding steps. See What Happens After You Send an EOR Offer.
Good to know
Sending the offer confirms your intent to hire. A legal employment relationship, and a commitment to the associated costs, begins once the employee accepts.
EOR plans include a security deposit. See What Happens After You Send an EOR Offer.
The platform checks that the employee's email isn't already in use before you can continue past New hire details.