A free trial of offshore staff in Australia tests about half a per cent of the decision. August labour figures show the country hedging the same way. Price the exit, not the audition.
The difference between staffing and a BPO is one clause: who is allowed to hire your own team member. Treasury's non-compete bill makes it worth reading.
An EOR and a staffing agency are priced on different things. One takes a slice of first-year salary once, the other a flat fee every month. Which you pick should turn on cashflow.
From 1 October the Reserve Bank removes card surcharging, so the $1.8 billion of fees Australian merchants used to pass on has to land somewhere else. Staffing fees behave the same way, and most of them are already invisible.