Cross-border employment, EOR arrangements, permanent establishment risk, and compensation strategies for founders managing distributed teams.
You have a Singapore Pte Ltd and you need to bring in foreign staff. Three Ministry of Manpower (MOM) pass…
A founder I advised last year had structured his Singapore entity cleanly, kept his own payroll compliant, and built a…
The first question most founders ask after committing to Asia or the Gulf is deceptively simple: Singapore or Dubai? The…
A reader wrote to me last week asking whether Thailand, Malaysia, or Indonesia was the better base for 2026. He…
Misclassifying a worker as an independent contractor when the relationship is factually employment costs businesses back taxes, unpaid statutory benefits,…
Singapore’s Employment Pass eligibility criteria changed substantially in 2023. The COMPASS points-based assessment, mandatory from September 2023, evaluates EP applicants…
The shift to distributed teams after 2020 created a tax exposure that most international employers still haven’t fully priced into…
Founders building remote teams reach for an employer of record (EOR) by default before modeling whether local incorporation costs less…
