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Hiring an employee is different from hiring a contractor: employees are part of your company, they receive statutory benefits, and there are local payroll taxes and protections to honor. Shor handles the compliance so you can focus on picking the right person.
This page covers hiring through EOR, where Shor is the legal employer. If you already own an entity in the country, you can employ the person through it instead and have Shor run the payroll, at a much lower monthly fee. See Payroll on Your Own Entity.

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When to Hire an Employee vs. a Contractor

Hire an Employee If

  • They work set hours for your company
  • You direct how the work gets done
  • They use your equipment and systems
  • The relationship is ongoing and exclusive
  • Their country’s labor law requires employee status for the role

Hire a Contractor If

  • They work for multiple clients
  • They set their own schedule and methods
  • They use their own tools
  • The engagement is project-based or short-term

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Adding an Employee

1

Start the Add Flow

From Talent → People, click Add person and pick Employee, then set the country of employment.
2

Choose the Payroll Employer

If you have an active subsidiary registered in that country, a Payroll Employer choice appears: your subsidiary, or Shor EOR. Pick Shor EOR to have Shor employ the worker on your behalf.If you don’t have a subsidiary there, this choice doesn’t appear and the hire goes through EOR.
3

Choose Full-Time or Part-Time

This affects required benefits, tax thresholds, and the contract template Shor generates.
4

Set Role and Seniority

Enter the job title and seniority level. Shor uses this for contract language, pay benchmarks, and any country-specific role classification.
5

Set Salary

Enter the salary and unit (per hour, per week, per month, or per year) along with the currency.
6

Choose Pay Frequency

Weekly, biweekly, or monthly, matched to local norms for the worker’s country.
7

Set Governing Law

Pick the jurisdiction the contract is governed by. Shor defaults to the worker’s country employment law framework, with localized clauses for probation, notice, statutory benefits, and termination.
8

Review and Send the Contract

Shor generates a country-appropriate employment contract reflecting local labor law. Review and send for signature.

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What the Employee Does Next

Your new hire receives an invitation to:
  1. Create their Shor account
  2. Complete identity verification
  3. Provide personal, tax, and payroll setup information needed for their country, including their bank account
  4. Sign the employment contract (electronically in most countries; in ink off this platform where local law requires it)
Shor verifies the payroll information with the worker’s country payroll system before the employee can finish signing; this can take a few minutes. Once they finish onboarding, they appear as an active worker on your People list and their upcoming payments surface automatically on the Payroll page based on their pay schedule.

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Statutory Benefits and Withholdings

For EOR (Employer of Record) employees, Shor handles the country-specific requirements:
  • Statutory leave: annual, sick, maternity, paternity as required by local law
  • Public holidays: tracked automatically
  • Employer contributions: pension, social security, health insurance where mandated
  • Employee withholdings: income tax and statutory contributions deducted from each paycheck
  • 13th / 14th month pay: where required by law
You’ll see a breakdown of total employer cost (salary + contributions + fees) before you finalize the contract, so there are no surprises. You can download this breakdown as a PDF to share internally.

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Probation, Notice, and Termination

Every employment contract reflects the country’s rules for:
  • Probation period: maximum length permitted
  • Notice period: required notice on both sides, which typically scales with tenure
  • Severance: statutory severance where applicable
  • Mandatory end-of-employment filings: any local filings required when the engagement ends
When an employment ends, start an offboarding from the worker’s profile. Shor walks you through notice periods, final pay, and any required local filings.

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Where Shor Supports Employees

Employee support varies by country. Some countries support full EOR (Shor employs the worker on your behalf); others only support contractor engagements today. A subset of our employee markets also supports managed payroll on an entity you own.

Global Coverage

See which countries support employee hiring.

Payroll on Your Own Entity

Hire through your own local entity instead.

Compensation Types

How salary, hourly, and variable pay work.