The EOR market is incredibly loud right now. It is expanding, consolidating, and getting pulled into every conversation about global talent, the extended workforce, and the Future of Work movement.
The problem is quite simple. Employer of Record solutions, technology, and services are far too often viewed and leveraged as a neo security blanket. It is easy enough. It is available whenever a program leader feels uncertain. And it delivers a sense of comfort that feels like compliance, even when it is not.
The real issue is that comfort has become a substitute for clarity. EOR is being used to avoid the classification conversations instead of informing them. It is being applied to workers who do not need employment and being treated as a universal fix instead of a targeted model.
And the market is starting to feel the consequences.
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