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Globalization Partners is an outsourcing company that lets businesses hire and pay employees in other countries without setting up local offices.
Globalization Partners is a "global employment" company. If a software firm in Texas wants to hire a talented engineer in Brazil or a salesperson in Japan, it usually has to create a legal company in that country first — a slow, expensive paperwork headache. Globalization Partners lets the firm skip that step. It hires the worker on its own books, handles the local taxes and benefits, and "rents" that employee back to the client. This arrangement is called an Employer of Record, or EOR. The client directs the person's daily work; Globalization Partners handles the official employer stuff, like payroll and labor law.
Customers pay Globalization Partners a fee for each employee it manages, and often a setup charge on top. The service is tempting because it slashes the time and cost of going international, and the client avoids the risk of tripping over unfamiliar employment rules in a new country. It competes with other EOR players, and with the old-fashioned route of setting up a branch or hiring a local staffing firm. The company was founded in 2012 by Nicole Sahin, whose own experience helping companies hire abroad sparked the idea.
The business grew fast during the remote-work boom, and its investors have pumped in serious money. In 2021 it raised $200 million at a reported $4.2 billion valuation, and in 2023 it brought in a further $150 million. It also acquired a smaller rival, Sequoia India-backed Replicated, to expand its reach. Profits have been harder to come by than revenue: high sales and marketing costs, plus a tough stretch after the pandemic hiring frenzy cooled, have pressured the bottom line. In 2023 the company cut jobs and replaced its chief executive — a sign that the easy growth era ended and it now has to prove the model can actually make money.
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