HR Options Blog
Practitioner-written perspectives from the HR Options team on Employer of Record, HR consulting, contractor classification, H-1B strategy, and building teams across borders.
The HR Options library covers what our consultants, payroll specialists, and Employer of Record team actually get asked every week. If you're weighing whether to hire in the U.S. through an Employer of Record versus opening your own entity, figuring out how to hire in Canada without a Canadian legal entity, deciding whether a worker should be a W-2 employee or a 1099 contractor, or looking at H-1B alternatives, there's a walkthrough for it here. We publish plain, practitioner-grounded explanations of the mechanics — Records of Employment, FMLA, co-employment, exempt vs non-exempt — not marketing recaps.
New to the space? Skim the HR & EOR glossary first, then pick a learning path below.
Learning Paths
Curated sequences of articles for the questions we hear most often.
Start here to understand what an EOR is, how it compares to alternatives, and how to pick one.
Side-by-side breakdowns of EOR against every adjacent model.
Global HR, enterprise scaling, industry playbooks, and H-1B strategy.
Worker classification, co-employment, and staying on the right side of local labor laws.
Practical reading for U.S. and international employers hiring into Canada. Covers Records of Employment, provincial payroll rules, and how companies use Canadian hires to sidestep H-1B lottery risk.
Foundational articles on structuring, outsourcing, and running an HR operation.
How recruiting, RPO, and talent mapping fit together — from the mechanics of a modern hiring funnel to when it makes sense to outsource the whole recruiting function.
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