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Global Squirrels vs Wing Assistant
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Global Squirrels helps you scale faster than staffing companies like Wing Assistant
Managed agencies like Wing Assistant typically operate as a “black box,” where the vendor manages the staff and keeps the talent’s compensation strictly confidential. Global Squirrels replaces this mystery with a transparent, flat-fee model, allowing you to see the talent’s exact compensation and our flat fee upfront. This ensures the majority of the bill rate goes directly toward securing high-quality talent rather than being absorbed by opaque agency overhead.
Wing also acts as a middle layer that filters interactions you have with your hired contractor. Global Squirrels offers direct communication without any intermediaries. You interact with your hires using your own tools-be it Slack, Email, or Zoom-just as you would with a local team member. This direct line of sight ensures that you maintain full control over performance, priorities, and workflow.
The most significant advantage of the Global Squirrels model is the guarantee of exclusive focus. Unlike vendor-managed services, where staff may be working across multiple client accounts simultaneously, talent hired through our platform works exclusively for you. This means your goals always come first, and your hire is 100% dedicated to your company’s long-term success.
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Global Squirrels vs Wing Assistant: What makes us the perfect alternative?
| Feature / offering | Global Squirrels | Wing Assistant |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Payroll cost + flat fee | Flat monthly pricing |
| Transparency | See pay expectations before interviews | Customers are unaware of the agency staff’s pay. Most often, this is considered strictly confidential. |
| Control | You manage the hire directly | Vendor-managed model |
| Communication | Direct access (email/phone/your tools) | Often limited to their app/platform |
| Exclusivity | Your hired talent works exclusively for you | Limited visibility into exclusivity: hired talent may be working for multiple companies simultaneously |
| Accountability | Clear (they work like your employee) | Shared/indirect accountability |
| Service coverage | Payroll + compliance only | Service delivery + internal management |
| Contract | Flexible | Better pricing for long-term commitments |
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FAQs
While Global Squirrels and Wing Assistant both offer remote staffing solutions, they work on fundamentally different business models: Global Squirrels operates as an Employer of Record (EOR) where you manage exclusive talent at their actual payroll cost plus a flat fee, whereas Wing Assistant functions as a managed agency where you pay a flat monthly rate for vendor-managed staff who may not be exclusive to your business. Global Squirrels is built for companies seeking full and direct control, unrestricted communication access, and clear accountability. On the other hand, Wing Assistant is designed for those who prefer to outsource service delivery and internal management to a third party. This often leads to sacrificing visibility into staff pay and direct tool integration for the convenience of a managed platform.
With Global Squirrels, you have 100% control over managing a contractor. The talent works exclusively for you and functions like a remote member of your internal team, using your specific tools and communication channels (email, phone, Slack, etc.). In contrast, Wing Assistant operates on a vendor-managed model. While you get the output, Wing handles the internal management of the staff. This restricts communication to their specific platform, and since they do not guarantee exclusivity, the talent may be supporting multiple companies at once.
Unlike Wing Assistant and other traditional agencies, which keep bill rates and talent compensation hidden between the company and the worker, Global Squirrels prioritizes pricing transparency. Our platform ensures that companies know exactly what their staff is being paid, and contractors understand the total hiring budget.
Global Squirrels acts as the legal employer (Employer of Record) primarily for payroll and compliance purposes. Because the talent works exclusively for you, the accountability is clear-they are your "employee" in every practical sense. Wing Assistant provides service delivery and internal management. Because they manage the staff and potentially share them across clients, accountability for work quality is shared or indirect. While they offer better pricing for long-term commitments, you are essentially hiring a managed service rather than an individual team member.