If you hire migrant workers in Singapore, the Singapore LQS quota hike is your single biggest payroll problem this quarter. From July 1, the Local Qualifying Salary jumps from S$1,600…
Editor's Note: All week the AI headlines have been about money. Microsoft is in talks to buy a Stanford-born diffusion-LLM startup for over a billion dollars. The goal is to…
EOR & Compliance Digest, May 14: The UK Just Gave Employers One Week to Shape Redundancy Law Seven days. That is how long UK employers have to formally tell the…
Editor's Note: The week's most consequential story isn't an LLM release or an enterprise software deal. It's a $2.1 billion raise for a company that wants to replace the traditional…
Two enforcement deadlines land this week, and both have teeth. California pay data reporting for the 2025 cycle is due today, May 13. Any California employer with 100 or more…
Two enforcement deadlines land this week, and both have teeth. California pay data reporting for the 2025 cycle is due today, May 13. Any California employer with 100 or more…
Editor's Note: The APAC AI enterprise commitment just got a number attached to it: 99%. That is the share of Indian enterprises planning to increase AI investments over the next…
The second week of May brought a compliance squeeze across four major hiring markets. USCIS final action dates now govern all employment-based green card filings in the United States, freezing…
AI mathematical reasoning just crossed a threshold most researchers didn't expect until 2030. DeepMind's Co-Mathematician resolved a group theory problem that had been open since 1965. Meanwhile, India crossed $1.48…
Hiring across borders is no longer limited to large enterprises. Startups, SMBs, and global companies now use Employer of Record partners to hire international employees quickly, legally, and without setting…
EOR & Compliance Digest, May 11: Australia Payday Super Rules Hit Quarterly Payroll Habits If you run payroll for anyone in Australia, your quarterly super cycle is about to die.…
Voice AI revenue just crossed a number that pushes it past "interesting demo" and into "serious enterprise category." On May 5, ElevenLabs disclosed it hit $500 million in annual recurring…
If your team has even one employee inside the EU, the next four weeks decide whether you sail through or scramble. The EU pay gap reporting deadline lands on June…
This week the DOL joint employer rule reset the rules for every staffing arrangement, EOR contract, and franchise structure that touches American payroll. Meanwhile, California employers face a hard pay-data…
Beijing wrote the cheque you were not expecting this week. Moonshot AI just closed a China AI mega round of roughly $2 billion. The deal pegs the lab at a…
Here is the conventional read of this week. Brussels blinked on its AI Act timeline. A former crypto miner bought a Spanish data center. Most HR teams still aren't ready…
Global hiring is now a core growth strategy for startups, SMBs, and mid-market companies. Businesses no longer hire only where they have local entities. They hire where the right talent…
If you sponsor talent in Australia or Singapore, the next eight weeks will rewire your hiring math. Australia skilled visa thresholds climb 3.8% on 1 July. Singapore lifts the Local…
Wall Street wants to know if AI hardware deserves a Nasdaq listing. Meanwhile, enterprise buyers want to know if AI workers deserve their roles. This week, in particular, the two…
EOR & Compliance Digest, May 7: UK Day-One SSP Hits Payroll, Finland Beats EU Deadline One month into the UK day-one SSP regime, the cost picture is getting clearer for…