Co-employment is when two organisations share employer rights and duties for the same workers. It typically involves a client company and a staffing firm or PEO, and raises questions about liability and benefits.
A contingent workforce is the people who work for an organisation without being its permanent employees. It includes contractors, freelancers, consultants, temporary staff and workers supplied by agencies or service providers.
An EOR becomes your staff's legal employer where you have no entity, but a PEO only shares employer duties with a local entity you already have. So an EOR suits entering new countries and a PEO suits outsourcing HR where you operate.
A professional employer organization (PEO) is a firm that shares employer duties with a client through co-employment. It runs payroll, benefits and HR administration, while the client keeps its own legal entity and stays an employer.
Staff augmentation is an engagement model where a company adds outside engineers to its own team for a set period, managing their work directly. The provider sources and employs them; the client keeps control of priorities, process and delivery.
A staffing agency finds and supplies workers, while an employer of record legally employs people you have already chosen. One solves sourcing; the other solves employing people where you have no entity.
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