ubiqueHire in 160 countries. Ubique is the legal employer, you run the team.
You pick the person, the role and the salary. Ubique employs them through a local entity, pays them on a local payslip and keeps the employment compliant. You never open a company abroad.
From £499 per employee per month. Excludes salary, employer contributions and optional benefits.
Everything a local employer is legally responsible for
In each country, Ubique Group Limited or its local subsidiary signs the employment contract. That makes us responsible, in law, for the obligations below. Not as a service, as the employer.
- Local employment contract in the local language and English, with the clauses the country requires: probation, notice, working time, confidentiality, IP assignment.
- Payroll on the local cycle, with a local payslip the employee can use for a mortgage or a visa.
- Tax withholding and filings with the tax authority, including year-end statements.
- Social contributions: pension, health, unemployment and accident insurance, registered and paid on time.
- Mandatory benefits: 13th-month salary, meal vouchers, private health where the law or the collective agreement requires it.
- Leave: statutory annual leave, public holidays, sick leave, parental leave, tracked against local rules.
- Termination: notice, severance, settlement documents and the steps that make a dismissal lawful where you are hiring.
You keep operational management
Day-to-day direction, objectives, performance reviews, tooling, the team the person belongs to. The employee works for you in every practical sense. Ubique never interferes with how you run the work.
You decide, we execute
Salary changes, bonuses, promotions, a move to part-time, an exit. You raise it in the dashboard, we check it against local law and carry it out. We tell you when something you want is not possible locally, and what the nearest lawful alternative is.
Own entity or partner, stated upfront
Ubique runs its own entities in 40 countries. Elsewhere we employ through a vetted partner, and the country page says which it is before you commit.
From offer to first payslip
Check the cost
Use the Calculator or Atlas to see the full employer cost: gross salary, employer contributions, mandatory benefits and the Ubique fee. No surprises in month two.
Add the hire
Name, role, salary, start date, any extras you have agreed. Ubique generates a compliant contract and sends it for e-signature. Most contracts go out within one business day.
We register and enrol
Tax ID, social security, pension scheme, mandatory insurance. In the 40 countries we run ourselves this usually takes two to five business days. In partner countries, allow one to three weeks.
Onboarding tasks
The employee gets a checklist: ID, bank details, tax forms, equipment address. You get your own: manager, tools, first-week plan. Both sides see the same progress.
Monthly payroll
You approve variables (bonuses, expenses, overtime) by the cut-off date. Ubique runs payroll, pays the employee and the authorities, and sends you one invoice in your currency.
Changes and offboarding
Amendments go through the same approval flow. When someone leaves, Ubique calculates notice and severance, prepares the documents and closes the registrations.
What is included, and what is optional
From £499 per employee per month, billed monthly, no annual commitment. Volume pricing from 25 employees.
Standard EOR
- Compliant contract and amendments
- Monthly payroll, payslips, tax and social filings
- Mandatory benefits and statutory leave
- Onboarding and offboarding workflows
- Expense reimbursement through payroll
- Real-time compliance updates
- HR support: 24/7 email, live chat in EU and US hours, 4-business-hour response target
- Dedicated account manager from 10 employees
Add-ons
- Supplementary health, pension, life and disability cover via partner brokers
- Equity plan management for EOR employees
- Visa and immigration assistance in around 30 countries
- IT equipment shipped to the employee
- Background checks where legally permitted
Salary, employer contributions and optional benefits are passed through at cost. They vary by country and are shown in the Calculator before you sign. See add-on services.
Questions People and Finance teams ask first
Who is the employer, legally?
Ubique Group Limited or the Ubique subsidiary in the employee's country. In the 40 countries where we run our own entities, that entity signs the contract. In the other 120, a vetted local partner is the employer and Ubique is contractually responsible to you for their performance. The country pages show which applies.
Does the employee know they are employed through Ubique?
Yes, and they should. The contract names Ubique as employer and your company as the client they work for. Employees see their payslips, leave and documents in the same dashboard you use. In our experience, candidates care about a local contract, a local payslip and proper benefits far more than about the name on the header.
How long can someone be employed through an EOR?
It depends on the country. Most have no limit. A few (Germany is the usual example) restrict employee leasing to 18 months, which is one reason we offer VEO there. We flag the limit at onboarding and propose the next step before the deadline.
What happens if we want to open our own entity later?
You transfer the employees to it. Ubique prepares the transfer documents, and in many countries the move can preserve seniority and accrued leave. Many customers then switch the same people to Global Payroll, so nothing changes on the employee's side.
Can we offer our own equity and bonuses?
Yes. Bonuses run through payroll as variables. Equity for EOR employees is handled by our equity plan management add-on, which deals with local tax reporting and withholding on exercise.
What are the termination rules?
Local law applies, not UK or US practice. Ubique tells you the notice period, severance and process before you hire, and again before you terminate. Because Ubique is the employer, a dismissal that does not follow local process exposes Ubique as well as you, so we will push back if the plan is not lawful.
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