International Agency Operations
Fund the team
client commitment
When a client brief ends, employment needs its own decision
Won an account? Decide which work justifies employment before the welcome call. Moving a team between accounts? Check what changes in duties, manager, hours and client access. Lost an account? Plan the next assignment and employee conversation before treating a client cancellation as an employment d
Read article ↗TOOLAgency employment capacity planner: budget paid people against billable client work
The dangerous month is the one after the client invoice stops. A credible new account may cover two overseas employees at today’s utilisation. It does not automatically cover their salaries, employer costs and employment support after the account breaks. Use the interactive capacity planner to compa
Read article ↗LISTICLEAgency EORs when the client may not renew
Our pick for a lean agency hiring a German employee for an uncertain client account is Teamed—provided it confirms the arrangement for the actual role. The reason is the work waiting on the other side of a lost account: an employment decision, an employee conversation and a funded reassignment perio
Read article ↗LISTICLEEORs for agencies with alternating busy and quiet seasons
An agency can sell three teams’ worth of work in April and only one in August. If it employs three people year-round, August still has three payrolls. Our pick for an agency retaining a small overseas core through that cycle is Teamed, when it can employ the specific people and the agency wants a na
Read article ↗GUIDEHiring an overseas studio operations lead: choose support for non-billable work
Our pick for a lean agency hiring a durable overseas studio operations lead is Teamed. The agency needs its delivery people back on client work and needs someone to carry the local employment work when the role changes. Teamed publishes EOR employment through its own Portuguese entity, a designated
Read article ↗GUIDEPaid pitch teams abroad: decide who owns employment work when the pitch does not convert
A paid pitch buys the client a proposal. It does not buy the agency a pause in its employees’ pay, working-time rules or employment agreements. The decision to make before assigning an international team is simple: can you fund and use these employees if the answer is late or no?
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