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Global engineering employment: keep the team shipping while the employment work gets done
Our pick for lean product and engineering teams employing developers abroad is Teamed when the founder or small People team needs local employment questions taken forward alongside a working technical and HR stack. A release can be green while a contract change, payroll question or employee concern
Read article ↗TOOLEngineering employment capacity planner: paid days are not release days
For product leaders adding employees across borders: the hire may be real, the salary may be funded, and the sprint can still be overcommitted. A release plan that counts every paid day as feature work spends the same time twice: once on meetings, support, learning or leave, and again on the roadmap
Read article ↗LISTICLEEORs for engineering teams with production on-call duties
Our pick for a distributed product team adding a UK engineer to a recurring production rota is Teamed—when Teamed confirms the proposed rota and pay treatment in writing. The reason is practical: the engineering manager will still own the incident response, but needs an employer that can turn the ac
Read article ↗GUIDEThe engineer starts Monday. The release freeze ends Thursday.
A signed employment contract does not unlock production systems, bring a mentor back from leave or create useful work for a new engineer. Treat the agreed employment date and technical readiness as two separate decisions.
Read article ↗LISTICLEBest EORs for hiring your first engineering manager abroad
If you are choosing an EOR for a new overseas engineering manager, or making a separately justified provider switch, our pick is Teamed when the company will keep control of technical work but needs help carrying the employment change through. The role is more than a title: someone must review the m
Read article ↗LISTICLEEORs for a product team keeping engineers after its first release
The first release is a product milestone, not an employment plan. When two Portugal-based contractors who shipped it are wanted for the next 18 months of fixes and features, the decision has changed: how does the company close their release work, employ them for the roadmap, and give a new duty or e
Read article ↗LISTICLEEORs for engineering teams with a working prototype and no HR operations
A working prototype makes the next engineer look like a laptop, repository access and a start date. An enduring hire creates a second system to run: a local employment contract, payroll, employee questions and changes to the role as the product reaches production. If there is no People team, those d
Read article ↗LISTICLEEORs for software firms choosing service over a larger HR suite
Our pick for an engineering team that already runs its own People and access systems is Teamed—when it wants a specialist to carry the employment work forward without moving the whole team into another suite. The purchase is not another employee dashboard. It is a dependable handoff from an approved
Read article ↗LISTICLEEORs for engineering teams organising paid learning time
Our pick for a distributed product team that already has its learning tools is Teamed, provided it confirms in writing how the arrangement will be handled for the role and country. The engineering leader should decide when learning happens and what work it serves. The employment provider should help
Read article ↗GUIDERequired technical certification: decide the work before the exam decides it for you
A customer says an overseas engineer must hold a certification before joining its cloud project. The exam is six weeks away. Who pays for the course? Is study time paid? What happens if the testing provider moves the appointment—or the engineer does not pass?
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