
Employer of Record vs Staffing Agency: Which Hiring Solution Is Right for Your Business?
You need to hire a project coordinator in Colombia. Do you call a staffing agency or an Employer of Record?

You need to hire a project coordinator in Colombia. Do you call a staffing agency or an Employer of Record?

Your U.S.-based bookkeeper costs $55,000 annually plus benefits, totaling closer to $66,000 annually. A skilled professional in Latin America with

Over 70% of law firms struggle with hiring and retaining skilled paralegals, a problem intensified by wage inflation, increasing workloads,

You built the perfect job description. Found the ideal salary range. Clicked “post job” on Computrabajo. Then hit the registration

Attorneys spend just 2.9 billable hours daily according to recent industry data, despite working 42 to 54 hours per week

Unemployment for lawyers sits at 0.9%, and for paralegals it’s just 1.9%—both well below the national 4.2% rate. Translation? Your

Companies lose $4,129 per failed hire, according to SHRM data. That number doubles for international remote hires who never integrate

Seventy percent. That’s how much you can save on payroll costs by hiring elite remote talent from Latin America instead

Latin American governments collected $2.3 billion in misclassification penalties from foreign companies in 2024 alone, according to regional tax authority

Seventy-five percent of U.S. employers can’t find the skilled workers they need domestically. Meanwhile, one digital advertising agency filled 11

Figuring out what to pay remote workers in Latin America is anything but straightforward. Glassdoor shows you one number. Indeed

Most business owners think they understand the cost of hiring LATAM talent. They see the salary numbers and assume they’ll

Latin America has emerged as the premier destination for remote talent across all business functions, with the region’s 2+ million

Mexico’s tax authority slapped a US tech company with a $2.5 million fine in 2023 for contractor misclassification under the

Here’s the million-dollar mistake I see service business owners make: they hear “outsourcing” and immediately think freelancers from Upwork or

Over 60% of large U.S. companies now hire from three or more Latin American countries, and remote work participation in

Payroll devours between 50-60% of what most service businesses spend each year. For small firms earning $600,000 annually, that’s over