Offshore staff in Vietnam vs Philippines is no longer a price question. Manila reset its wage floor twice this quarter. Hanoi did it once, on schedule.
The ATO does not make you pay super on a non-resident employee working outside Australia. That is a clean rule with a messy consequence: the 12 percent you never spend is not margin, it is the budget for employing that person properly somewhere else.
Master Builders published the number on 15 September: more construction apprentices quit than finished. The same arithmetic decides whether your newest remote hire is still there in December.
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.
Entry level roles are 1 per cent of digital advertising vacancies and 49 per cent of ads want six years of experience. The junior designer a twelve person agency wants to hire is not being made any more.
Fair Work will not hear a dismissal claim from your Philippine-based hire. The obligation moves to DOLE, where a redundancy costs separation pay plus thirty days' notice, and most Australian founders have budgeted for none of it.
Employment Hero's HeroForce publishes its Employer of Record fee in a help centre article, not on the Philippines product page. What that $400 to $600 band does across three hires.
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.
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