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5 In-Demand Talent Hubs for Hiring with Deel-Owned Legal Entities
Global hiring
Employer of record
Author
Kate Moerel
Published
March 26, 2024
Last Update
January 31, 2025
Key takeaways
- With wholly-owned legal entities in over 100 countries, Deel is the world’s #1 Employer of Record today.
- Owned infrastructure offers tighter compliance, consistent processes, and a better overall experience for your organization.
- Our vast global network includes in-house experts covering countries worldwide, from the US and Brazil to the UK and Australia to India and Singapore.
Expanding globally is no longer a luxury — it’s a strategic necessity for businesses aiming to stay competitive in today’s dynamic, remote-first landscape. Yet, navigating complex agreements, local compliance, and payroll intricacies across countries can feel like a monumental task.
With wholly-owned entities in over 100+ countries, Deel empowers companies to hire global talent seamlessly, eliminating third-party risks and ensuring consistent, compliant international growth.
This article spotlights the top five countries where Deel-owned entities are revolutionizing international hiring. It highlights the opportunities, key benefits, and how Deel’s in-house expertise can simplify your global expansion.
Whether you’re a startup or an enterprise, imagine building a worldwide team without the typical hidden costs or compliance hurdles — this is the Deel difference.
Top countries with Deel-owned entities to engage talent
Based on Deel’s State of Global Hiring report and general trends in international hiring, we’ve made a list of top countries to hire from through our platform.
- The Philippines
- United States
- Argentina
- Colombia
- Brazil
1. The Philippines
From second place in the previous year, the Philippines emerged as the country with the most workers on Deel’s platform, with the UK, the US, and Australia as top employers looking for talent in this Asian country.
The roles that were most in demand from the Philippines included virtual assistance, data, and accounting.
See also: Doing Business in Southeast Asia: A Comprehensive Guide
The Deel EOR in the Philippines allows you to seamlessly hire team members from this country without worrying about compliance with locally-required employee benefits, such as the minimum wage set by the region, overtime pay, mandatory time off, and more.
The onboarding of EOR employees located in the Philippines takes around two business days, and all the required compliance documentation must be submitted before the employee’s start date.
More resources to guide your hiring decisions in the Philippines:
The opportunity is huge as there are already established talent pools [...] or global operations support hubs in the Philippines and Malaysia.
—Paul Endacott,
Founder & CEO, GRIT Search
Deel Employer of Record
2. United States
The US was one of the top 10 locations to get a visa for in 2023, according to Deel’s State of Global Hiring report. It was also the #1 country hiring through Deel and the second country with the most workers hired through the platform.
Given its strong economy and tech hubs, this data about the US doesn’t come as a surprise. However, hiring in the US can be significantly different from hiring in other parts of the world, which is where Deel’s vast expertise comes into play.
Our US entity aids in seamless employment compliance with federal and state regulations, such as minimum wages, statutory employee benefits, and termination requirements, which can vary across 50 states. The onboarding of your US workers can take as little as one business day.
Read more about hiring in the US:
While we were very comfortable with hiring locally, we were apprehensive about the costs and legal responsibilities for compliance in the United States. We didn’t want to hire full-time HR people to figure out things like health benefits and filing tax returns with the IRS.
—Matthew Buchanan,
CEO at Letterboxd
Top 5 global roles workers got hired for:
- Software Engineering & Development
- Sales
- Content Marketing
- Product
- Design
3. Argentina
Argentina emerged as one of the hottest countries in the LATAM region, maintaining a strong third place in terms of the number of workers hired through the Deel platform—for the second year in a row.
Many companies from all around the world turn to Argentina (with Brazil and Colombia following closely) to find the best teachers, customer success managers, and finance specialists.
The Deel-owned entity in Argentina lets you hire workers from this LATAM country without any hassle. Our in-house team of legal experts and payroll professionals will make sure you comply with local requirements related to payroll taxes, leave policies, complex termination conditions, and more.
Learn more about hiring from Argentina with confidence:
If a customer goes to hire, for example, from Argentina without deep comprehension of what’s considered competitive locally, they can lose great talent because they’re not aware of what offer to make in terms of different hiring models.
—Michelle Cascardo,
SMB Sales Manager for LATAM, Deel
Did you know?
For independent contractors working in countries with less stable currencies, like Argentina, the Deel Card provides a simple and flexible solution.
By receiving their paycheck in USD, workers gain stability and maximize the value of their earnings. This not only shields them from currency fluctuations but also opens up infinite global spending capabilities.
4. Colombia
Companies worldwide looked for additions to their global teams in Colombia, as well, making this LATAM country the fourth most popular for employers on the Deel platform throughout 2023. Colombian talent was mostly hired for roles in teaching, accounting, and customer support, unlocking a new market and customer base for many companies with headquarters in Spain and Argentina.
From cost-efficient and qualified talent to overlapping working hours, there are plenty of reasons to hire from Colombia, and Deel can help you comply with all legal requirements, such as providing an employment contract written in Spanish.
From payroll processing and benefits administration to intellectual property management and employee support in the local language, Deel makes sure you can run your team in Colombia hassle-free, onboarding new hires in one business day.
We’re sharing more resources to help you make informed decisions about hiring in Colombia:
Did you know?
Colombian law requires employers hiring in this country to pay employees the 13th and 14th salary in June and December, respectively.
5. Brazil
With German, Chilean, and local companies hiring from Brazil, this LATAM country made it to the fifth country with the most workers on the Deel platform, taking over from India. The most popular roles businesses were looking to fill with talent from Brazil were in finance, data, and consulting.
With an average onboarding time of three business days, Deel’s legal entity in Brazil allows you to expand to this market quickly and easily.
Our in-house team of legal counsels ensures your employment contracts with Brazilian employees and contractors are valid and written in Portuguese or English, as required by the law, and that any other local legislations are met, like the minimum wage (R$1,412 per month) or statutory paid time off for both part-time and full-time employees (30 calendar days a year).
Note: Deel EOR employees in Brazil are covered by a collective bargaining agreement that provides a minimum wage of R$1,590 per month.
More resources:
Other countries that were a popular choice for employers using Deel’s platform for global expansion: were Nepal, Sri Lanka, Jamaica, the UK, Pakistan, Canada, Germany, Morocco, and Australia.
Read more: Best Employer of Record 2024: Insights from the G2 EOR Report
What Deel’s global footprint mean for you
Employers of Record are not all the same: some EORs may choose to set up their own entities in different countries to help clients hire from there, while others partner with in-country compliance and payroll providers to offer hiring services.
Whether you’re a startup in early growth stages or a well-established enterprise unlocking yet another new market, working with in-country partners feels like a less reliable option for hiring international employees, as it comes with quite a few red flags:
- Unexpected and hidden costs
- Lack of flexibility in services provided
- Data security and compliance challenges
- Inconsistency and incompatibility in data and processes
- Poor customer service and prolonged communication
This is why Deel chose to take the longer road, one that will be more beneficial for our clients in the long run.
Deel's worldwide entities offer businesses direct access to global payroll, compliance, and HR services while minimizing communication touchpoints and ensuring faster issue resolution.
By leveraging Deel's entities, organizations provide a consistent employee experience globally, eliminating dependence on local vendors and ensuring equitable treatment for their full-time employees and independent contractors across locations.
Deel-owned entities mitigate data security and compliance risks by eliminating third-party involvement in handling sensitive employee information. Our top-notch security features and certificates, from GDPR and SOC2 compliance to Okta SSO, ensure your sensitive employee and company data is safe no matter where you hire.
See also: EORs with Owned Entities vs. In-Country Partners: What’s Better?
Lower costs and compliance consolidation
Deel's ownership of entities in your target countries results in lower overall costs due to in-house process management and the absence of fees associated with third-party vendors.
Best of all, our already-established presence ensures stronger local compliance, as we possess a deeper understanding of local labor laws. In other words—we’ve been there, done that, and can help you reach your business goals with unmatched expertise.
We have more than 100 entities, and we’re running payroll in-house. If we can do it for our entities where we have thousands of employees, we can also do it for our customers’ entities and start truly consolidating everyone, contractors, employees where you don’t have the infrastructure, plus all of your [direct] employees, all of your entities in one place.
—Alex Bouaziz,
CEO & Co-Founder at Deel
Read more: Best Employer of Record 2024: Insights from the G2 EOR Report
Streamline international hiring with Deel
Deel is the single solution for hiring, managing, paying, and supporting international teams of any size. Easily access new countries and markets with Deel’s EOR services and onboard new hires in as little as a few business days.
From HRIS capabilities to international payroll processing, global compliance, advanced reporting, visa application support, performance management, and world-class integrations with all the essential global HR tools, Deel has everything you need to run your entire team in one place.
If this sounds like the right fit for your needs, book a demo with our expert team and learn more about Deel’s features, pricing, and use cases.
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About the author
Kate Moerel has been immersed in creating content that focusses on the relationship between employers and their workforce for the last decade, and advocates for a world of work without bias for all. She defines the content strategy to support organizations to thrive with a global workforce across all marketing touchpoints.
