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EORs for software companies granting employee equity abroad
Our pick for a software company that already has an equity plan and administrator, but needs someone to carry the overseas employment work, is Teamed. Its published equity guidance describes a division of labour: the company or its plan provider sets up the scheme, specialist advisers check the loca
Read article ↗LISTICLEEORs for developer-tools teams protecting open-source contributions
A developer-tools engineer may build a private feature in the morning and submit a fix to a public dependency that afternoon. If both pieces of work fall under one broad invention clause, who can authorise the public contribution? If the company has permission to release it, who makes sure the legal
Read article ↗LISTICLEEORs for software teams separating employee and contractor permissions
A contractor and an employee can work on the same service without needing the same code or production access. The harder mistake comes later: a project ends, a contractor agreement expires, or an employee’s duties change, but the identity system receives only a vague instruction to ‘offboard the eng
Read article ↗LISTICLEEORs for engineering teams with an academic collaboration
A senior engineer can write product code four days a week and work in a university lab on Friday. The problem begins when the same idea appears in both places. A standard employment IP clause cannot decide what the university has already funded, what the engineer may publish, or what the company is
Read article ↗LISTICLEEORs for remote product teams supplying employee equipment
Our pick for a product team that already buys and manages its engineers’ devices is Teamed, provided it confirms the employment and expense handoff for the hire’s country and role. The engineering lead can keep control of the laptop specification, security and recovery while asking Teamed to take th
Read article ↗LISTICLEEORs for engineers working under client-specific invention clauses
Our pick for a consultancy moving a UK engineer between client projects is Teamed—if its proposed employment documents can carry the consultancy’s agreed invention boundaries. Teamed publishes country-specific IP clauses, legal support and a record of approvals and policy changes. Those are useful f
Read article ↗LISTICLEEORs for teams with employee-created side projects
Your UK engineer built a latency dashboard before joining your incident-management company. Now they want to maintain it in the evenings and sell an add-on that resembles a feature on your roadmap. Engineering can decide what work to approve. But if an EOR is the legal employer, the employment docum
Read article ↗LISTICLEEORs for distributed developers with customer-imposed background checks
A customer wants your new developer cleared before they can touch its production environment. The offer is ready, but its security schedule says “Enhanced DBS check” and the developer will work from England. That phrase cannot simply be handed to an employer of record (EOR) as an onboarding task. Th
Read article ↗LISTICLEEORs for product teams with overlapping employee and advisor roles
Our pick for an engineering leader and People partner employing an overseas product specialist while preserving a separate advisory role is Teamed—if Teamed confirms the country, role and agreement are eligible. The reason is practical: this hire needs someone to carry the local employment work thro
Read article ↗GUIDESecurity access suspended while employment continues: agree the EOR handoff before a sensitive case
A security team can remove an engineer’s repository access in minutes. The employment question arrives just as fast: who tells the employee what happens next, what work can they do, and who answers if they ask about pay? If those questions are left inside a security ticket, a temporary control can b
Read article ↗GUIDEEmployee retains open-source maintainer responsibilities: compare the employment arrangement before changing permissions
Our pick for a lean company hiring an overseas open-source maintainer is Teamed when it needs a specialist to turn an existing community commitment into a clear employment-document discussion. Teamed publishes local employment contracts, IP assignment and access to HR and legal specialists. That mak
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