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4 direct countries · 75 partners

A real EOR.
Not a SaaS in disguise.

We are the legal Employer of Record. We own the entity, the contract, and the liability. You get a dedicated account manager who picks up the phone, plus the ENGAGE platform behind them. Not a chatbot. Not a ticket queue. Not a T&C clause that puts the risk back on you.

4+75
direct + partner network
0 liability
that lands on you
Same·day
ticket resolution
HQ SimpleENGAGELIVE
Executive Dashboard

Active contingent workforce

Total spend YTD
$9.64M
Across 6 active countries
Active workers
72
W-2 + 1099 mix
Countries
6
Direct + specialist
Compliance
100%
All audits passed
AI INSIGHT
3 contractors in California show W-2 conversion indicators. Review recommended.
NoteYour dedicated human still picks up the phone →
Programs our team has built and operated directly20+ years of track record →
Google
USAA
Electronic Arts
GoPro
23andMe
Qualcomm
DreamWorks
Dolby
Deloitte
Informatica
GuideSpark
TIBCO
Amyris
Gogo
PPD
Google
USAA
Electronic Arts
GoPro
23andMe
Qualcomm
DreamWorks
Dolby
Deloitte
Informatica
GuideSpark
TIBCO
Amyris
Gogo
PPD
The wedge

Every other EOR is racing to replace humans. We're racing to keep them.

Most EORs chase scale by automating humans out of the work. We do the opposite. HR is human work, and our four-day workweek keeps us sharp and engaged.

AT MOST BIG EORs

The self-service treadmill

Chatbot first, human maybe
Tickets dropped into a pool, picked up by whoever
Different rep every time you email, no backstory
Generic answers that take days to land
Add-ons billed separately
Payroll errors take 3 to 5 business days
AT HQ SIMPLE

Your person, on speed dial

Dedicated account manager by Monday
Same rep for your team and your workers
Hospitality-trained, not call-center trained
Your time zone, your business hours
Everything included: software, ATS, compliance
Payroll issues resolved same-day
Interactive

Which solution is right for you?

Four services, one team. Pick the situation that matches and we'll show you how it works.

Recommended

Employer of Record

We become the legal employer in 80+ countries. Runs payroll, taxes, benefits, and compliance. You direct the work.

INCLUDED
80+ countries
INCLUDED
Often same-day onboarding
INCLUDED
Full benefits included
HOW IT FEELS
KS
"Hey, Kimberly here, your dedicated account manager. Send me the worker's details and I'll have the contract and day-one onboarding teed up. Often same day."
Why HQ Simple

Service that doesn't feel like
a support ticket.

Most contingent-workforce platforms route your urgent question to a chatbot, then a Tier-1 agent, then a knowledge-base link. We do the opposite: a named human with twenty years in this industry, on the desk, picking up the phone. Here's the operating system that keeps clients around.

01 · REAL HUMAN, REAL HOURS

A named human picks up. Always.

Your account director has a name, a direct line, and a calendar that opens for you. When something matters, you reach them in hours. No bots routing you through a help-center scavenger hunt, no "someone will get back to you within 48 hours," no Tier-1 / Tier-2 / Tier-3 ladder. One person, on the hook.

02 · OPERATORS, NOT AGENTS

Twenty years of operator expertise. On the desk.

We've onboarded 10,000+ workers a year through programs we built and ran directly inside companies. The person answering your question has actually operated the program you're standing up, not read about it in a knowledge-base article. Industry context comes free.

03 · DIRECT + 75 COUNTRIES

Global EOR, specialists not generalists.

Direct in US, Canada, UK, and Australia: we own the entity and carry the liability. The other 75 countries are covered by a vetted network of local specialists who only do EOR in their home market, not one mega-partner sitting between you and 150 jurisdictions. We always tell you which is which.

04 · BEND, NOT BREAK

Flexibility built in, not bolted on.

Pass-through, all-inclusive, or cost-plus. Mix EOR, 1099, sourcing, and MSP without re-papering. Move a worker from contractor to W-2 in one click. The model bends to your program; we don't ask you to rebuild your hiring around our SKU.

05 · AI + HUMAN JUDGMENT

AI assists. Humans decide.

Real-time classification scoring, audit-ready files, automated flagging of California / NY / intl risk. The AI surfaces what to look at; a real compliance person decides what to do. We don't pretend a model can replace judgment, and we don't pretend the answer is buried in a chatbot.

06 · STAGGERED 5-DAY

Four-day workweek, five-day coverage.

Our team works four days. We stagger schedules so clients still get five days of coverage, and our people stay rested. Rested humans answer faster, catch more, and actually like the people they pick up the phone for. The math on burnt-out support agents doesn't work.

From the founder

“Hire anyone, anywhere”
is a marketing line.

The hyperscalers tell you they cover 150+ countries. Read the contract: 80% of those are partner countries with a third party sitting between you and your worker, and you'll never find out who until something breaks.

We took a different bet. Four countries we own end-to-end. Seventy-five more where we partner with in-country specialists who only operate in their home market. You always know who employs your worker, and we'll happily say no when we're not the right fit.

What you read on the marketing page
Hire anyone in 150+ countries
  • Onboard in as little as 24 hours*
  • Zero compliance risk
  • Local benefits guaranteed
*
The asterisk does the work. "As little as" is the magic phrase. Partner-country reality is typically 2-6 weeks, sometimes longer when visa or banking docs are involved.
The contract actually says ↓
What the Terms of Service says
“Provider may, in its sole discretion, engage a third-party regional partner to perform Services in any jurisdiction outside Provider's Direct Coverage Territories. Identity of such partners is confidential. Liability for partner-led services is limited to Provider's recovery from such partner…”
Standard hyperscaler MSA · §4.2
Translation: not our problem
Why teams switch

Nobody picks an EOR twice for fun.

The teams who switch to us almost always start somewhere else. They picked the slick demo, the famous logo, the per-seat dashboard, and then something broke. Here are the four moments we hear about most.

The moment it breaks

Your contractor in São Paulo missed a paycheck.

Tuesday morning. Slack lights up. Your worker says payroll didn't hit. You open a ticket. The hyperscaler's bot asks for your case number. Forty hours later, you learn the local partner had a bank holiday they didn't account for. No warning. No proactive call.

WHAT CHANGES WITH HQ SIMPLE

Your account director knew about the holiday two weeks earlier and pre-funded the payroll. You hear about the close call on your weekly check-in, not from a panicked Slack DM.

The switch itself

Migrations we've done land in 14 days.

Day 1
Discovery + worker list
Day 3
Personal calls to every worker
Day 7
Contracts e-signed
Day 14
First payroll runs clean
In their words

The reviews we didn't have to ask for.

We don't run a customer marketing program. People just say nice things, sometimes on Slack, sometimes on calls, and sometimes, like these, written down.

We talked to four EORs before HQ Simple. Three discovery calls each, with people who couldn't answer basic pricing or coverage questions. HQ Simple's site was the only one we understood, and the first call was with someone who actually knew the answers. The decision made itself.
Director of Talent Acquisition
Consumer brand · 23 workers
Three years in, we've never once had to explain our business to a new account manager. The same person picks up every time, for our team and for our workers.
Head of Talent
Hospitality group · 180 workers across 4 countries
Their compliance team flagged a worker California's labor board later asked about, fourteen months before the inquiry landed. That alone paid for the contract.
Director of HR
Mid-market SaaS · 43 workers
Switching EORs was the easiest vendor migration we've done. Our account manager walked all 28 contractors through it personally. Nobody dropped a paycheck.
VP of People
Enterprise SaaS · 28 contractors
I sent our account manager a payroll question on a Tuesday afternoon. By Wednesday morning it was fixed, with a note explaining what happened. I genuinely don't know how to convey how unusual that is in this industry.
VP of HR
Biotech/Pharma · 33 workers across 3 countries
After we wound down the program, I called our account manager just to say thank you. The whole thing felt like working with a team that cared about getting it right, not closing tickets. We'll be back when we ramp again.
Head of People Operations
Specialty foods · 17 workers
Benjamin Jack, Founder & CEO
FROM THE FOUNDER

“I've spent 20+ years building EOR and contingent workforce programs. Most of the time the buyer was blindsided. By what they were actually getting, by surprise charges, by which ‘partner’ was suddenly handling their worker. HQ Simple exists so founders never have to translate their own contracts.”

Benjamin Jack
Founder & CEO, HQ Simple
Ready when you are

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