Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Getting started with Global Squirrels
Global Squirrels is a staffing and EOR (Employer of Record) platform that helps businesses hire and retain local and remote global talent with zero employer obligations. We enable businesses to source, hire, and manage local contingent workforce or remote talent from all over the world without the need to set up foreign entities. Our all-in-one software handles everything from AI-driven talent sourcing to automated payroll and localized compliance, allowing you to build a local and global team from your computer.
Using Global Squirrels, you can hire local talent from the USA and Canada to work from your offices or remotely from home, and remote talent from India, Mexico, the Philippines, and more. Our platform sources qualified candidates based on your preferred country and job requirements. Once candidates are sourced, you will be able to interview, finalize pay, and confirm the job offer. Upon confirmation, you will be enrolled in a monthly subscription that covers employee salaries, payroll costs, and a flat fee for our service.
Many businesses face a significant challenge when engaging with standard EOR firms: the burden of sourcing and vetting overseas talent. Because most EOR providers focus strictly on payroll and compliance, they expect customers to recruit their own talent before onboarding them via an EOR solution. Global Squirrels specifically solves this pain point through our Orange Plan. Unlike competitors who offer a "bring your own talent" model, we provide a unified Recruitment + EOR solution. Once you provide a job description, our platform sources and delivers curated candidate profiles in just 2 to 5 business days for you to interview. This eliminates the need for separate recruiting agencies or internal HR overhead. Furthermore, our pricing model remains transparent and cost-effective; once your candidate is hired, your costs consist simply of the employee's payroll costs and a flat fee, mirroring the simplicity of our standard EOR model while providing far greater value.
Traditional staffing agencies and outsourcing companies usually don’t tell you how much the talent is actually paid. You’re charged a bill rate with heavy markups, and the resource may not work exclusively for you since they could be supporting multiple clients or doing internal work for the agency.
While Global Squirrels works like a staffing or outsourcing partner, everything is managed through our platform, giving you full transparency and control. You can decide the talent’s pay and increase it at any time. The talent works exclusively for you, with no extra management layer or shared resources.
You control what they work on, how they work, and when to continue or end the employment. Our pricing is simple and transparent: payroll cost plus a flat platform fee, with no markups or hidden costs.
We eliminate the massive overhead costs associated with international expansion, such as legal fees for entity setup, local HR personnel, and traditional recruiting agency markups (often 30%-60% of the talent’s pay). Global Squirrels charges a flat fee and the employee’s payroll cost. This model provides you with a predictable monthly cost while we handle the complexities of international contracts, localized benefits, and compliance.
To hire/onboard a talent via Global Squirrels, first, create an account on our platform. Next, choose a plan that best matches your current stage—whether you already have a candidate ready for onboarding or need our platform to source new talent. Then, define your specific job requirements, including your budget and the preferred country. Our platform will begin sourcing candidates, and within 2-5 business days, you will receive curated profiles of top talent. You can log in, review profiles, schedule interviews, and approve offer letters. After you confirm a hire, Global Squirrels takes care of onboarding, payroll, and benefits. Once the candidate is active on our platform, you can work with them like your own employee while we ensure full compliance and administrative support.
Understanding our plans
The Orange Plan is our flagship "Recruitment + EOR" solution. This is ideal for companies that want Global Squirrels to find the candidate for them. Our recruitment team sources and vets talent based on your specific job description, delivering curated profiles in just 2 to 5 business days. Once you select the best fit, we transition them into our EOR system to manage their payroll, attendance, and compliance for the duration of their employment, all for a simple flat fee plus payroll costs.
The Purple Plan is our "EOR/payrolling only" solution. This is best for businesses that already have a candidate identified and need a reliable EOR partner to handle the legalities. We handle onboarding, employment contracts, local compliance, payroll administration, and benefits, so your new hire can start working immediately for you.
The Blue Plan is designed for businesses that require a managed office environment. In addition to our recruitment and EOR solution, we provide employees with a professional office space in one of our global hubs. This includes high-speed infrastructure, hardware support, and a dedicated workspace, ensuring your international team members have a secure and productive environment to work from.
EOR global compliance
Employer of Record assumes all primary legal and administrative responsibilities of the employer. This includes ensuring 100% compliance with local labor laws, managing mandatory tax withholdings and filings, and providing required worker benefits and statutory insurances. By serving as the legal entity on record, the EOR partner also assumes responsibility for drafting locally compliant employment contracts, managing statutory benefits, and navigating the complexities of regional regulatory changes. This legal structure effectively shields your business from the risks associated with international employment, such as misclassification or non-compliance with unfamiliar foreign jurisdictions.
When engaging an EOR, intellectual property is protected through a robust "back-to-back" legal structure. The EOR provider signs a comprehensive employment agreement with the worker in their local jurisdiction that includes strict IP assignment and confidentiality clauses. Simultaneously, the service agreement between your business and the EOR provider stipulates that all rights, titles, and interests in the work created by the employee are automatically transferred to your company. This ensures that even though the EOR is the legal employer on paper, your business retains full ownership of all inventions, code, designs, and proprietary data produced by the talent.
Using an EOR like Global Squirrels saves you a significant amount of time by bypassing the bureaucratic and legal hurdles required to establish a foreign subsidiary. Setting up a local entity is a complex, multi-month project that typically takes 3 to 6 months—and in some regions, over a year—as it involves corporate registration, opening local bank accounts, securing tax IDs, and hiring local legal and HR experts. In contrast, Global Squirrels allows you to bypass this entire infrastructure. Because we already have the legal framework in place, you can move from "offer accepted" to "onboarded" in just 24 to 48 hours for candidates you sourced by yourself, or find and hire new talent in as little as 2 to 5 business days.
If a business decides to terminate its partnership with an EOR platform, the provider manages the end-to-end offboarding process to ensure the transition is legally sound and professionally handled. This typically includes calculating final paychecks, managing local notice periods, and ensuring all statutory requirements—such as severance pay or accrued leave encashment—are met in accordance with the specific labor laws of the employee’s country. By handling these administrative complexities, the EOR platform mitigates the risk of wrongful termination claims and ensures that all local tax and labor filings are finalized, allowing the business to close the engagement without legal or operational friction.
Utilizing an EOR service significantly enhances a company’s ability to offer high-quality, localized benefits packages that are competitive in the global market. Because the EOR provider operates through established legal entities, they can grant international employees access to statutory and supplemental benefits—such as private health insurance, retirement plans, and paid leave—that would otherwise be unavailable to a foreign company without a local presence. By outsourcing the administration and management of these benefits to the EOR, businesses can attract and retain top-tier talent and ensure 100% compliance with regional labor laws, all without the cost or complexity of maintaining an in-house international HR department.
My account
Yes, getting started with Global Squirrels is completely free. You can sign up, create an account, and even post your job requirements at no cost. We operate on a "no-obligation" model, meaning you are only required to pay once you have interviewed the sourced candidates and confirmed a hire.
As soon as you log in, you are presented with an overview of your active resources and open hiring requests directly on your main Dashboard. For more granular tracking, the "Requests in Progress" tab allows you to follow the real-time status of every recruitment and onboarding request in detail. The platform features built-in remote talent management tools that put you in total control of your local and remote workforce. From a single interface, you can update employee pay, approve leaves and timesheets, set up performance milestones, and even request terminations.
Billing and payments
The billing works like renting an apartment. Once a resource is confirmed, you need to pay the onboarding deposit and prepay the monthly hiring cost on a subscription basis. The monthly hiring cost comprises payroll costs and our flat platform fee. When you end the assignment, we refund you the onboarding deposit and any pay associated with unpaid leaves taken by the hired resource after adjusting for any legally required severance pay, exchange rate fees, and our payment provider fees.
Yes. Your monthly subscription will be updated automatically when you onboard or offboard resources.
You are required to pay a one-month deposit and prepay employee pay and the subscription fee each month. Just like renting an apartment. This is to ensure the employee is paid on time, without delay, as per their country’s requirements. Postpaid pay option is available to enterprise customers based on volume. An additional overhead fee will apply to post-pay options.
Any overage fee collected for an employee due to unpaid leave taken throughout the employment will be reimbursed upon the employee’s termination. You can track all unpaid leave taken by your employee from your dashboard.
Global hiring
Global Squirrels is a pioneer in combining a massive database of curated local and remote international profiles with a dedicated, expert recruitment team. Once you select the Orange or Blue plan, our team sources and submits curated profiles of top-tier candidates based on your job description. You can then review profiles (including their hiring costs, resumes, and cover letters) and conduct interviews directly through our platform to ensure they are a great fit before extending an offer.
Building a diverse, global team is widely considered the future of work, offering access to high-quality talent and cost efficiencies. Our staffing and payrolling platform makes this reality accessible and risk-free. If your business strategy changes or a specific role is no longer required, you can initiate a termination request directly from your dashboard. We ensure the exit is handled professionally and in full compliance with local labor laws, protecting your brand throughout the process.
Building a diverse, global team is widely considered the future of work, offering access to high-quality talent and cost efficiencies. Our staffing and payrolling platform makes this reality accessible and risk-free. If your business strategy changes or a specific role is no longer required, you can initiate a termination request directly from your dashboard. We ensure the exit is handled professionally and in full compliance with local labor laws, protecting your brand throughout the process.
There are no minimum or maximum hiring limits. Our platform is built for scalability, supporting businesses that need just one specialized resource as effectively as enterprises managing a global workforce of hundreds. Whether you are making your first remote hire or scaling an entire department, we provide the same level of dedicated support and infrastructure.
Absolutely. When you submit the job request in the platform, you can specify your preferred working hours. We then source and vet candidates who are specifically interested in and available to work during your designated time zone. This ensures seamless collaboration and real-time communication between your local and international team members.
Establishing a foreign subsidiary—complete with local legal counsel, HR departments, and physical office space—is a massive capital and time investment. This traditional route typically only becomes cost-effective when hiring 50 or more employees in a single country. For businesses looking for agility and cost-savings, Global Squirrels provides a ready-made infrastructure. We let you bypass months of setup and high overhead costs, giving you all the benefits of a global team from multiple countries without the administrative or legal burdens.
International payrolling
Managing payroll across borders is a massive undertaking due to fluctuating exchange rates, varying banking regulations, and unique legal employer obligations in every country. Traditionally, a company would need to establish its own HR, legal, and accounting departments in every territory to remain compliant. Global Squirrels eliminates this complexity with pre-established legal entities. You simply make monthly payments in your local currency, and our platform handles the rest. We take full responsibility for processing payroll, generating comprehensive pay stubs, calculating localized tax withholdings, and ensuring all statutory filings are completed accurately and on time.
You can track every transaction, oversee employee benefits, and ensure total compliance without switching between multiple software. While your employees are paid in their local currencies to meet regional requirements, you are billed ca onsolidated monthly fee in your local currency.
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