How do you handle benefits when hiring through an EOR?

[amanda22]

We’re starting to hire a few employees outside our home country, and one thing I’m still struggling to understand is employee benefits. We plan to use an EOR rather than opening entities straight away.

I’ve compared a few providers, and Globalization Partners is one we’ve been speaking with recently. I actually understand payroll and local employment side fairly well, but benefits get less clear when every country has different requirements and expectations. I don’t necessarily expect someone in Germany and someone in the UK to have identical benefits, but I also don’t want one package to feel noticeably worse just because of where the employee lives.

So, I have a question for employers already doing this, do you normally let the EOR recommend a standard local package and work from there, or do you set your own global minimum and then add whatever is required locally?