A company needs a recruiter to find the talent. It needs an advisor to decide whether that person should be an employee or a contractor. Then it needs an Employer of Record or a local entity to hire them, an onboarding process to get them started, and a payroll and payments provider to pay them. That’s five systems and five contracts, none of which talk to each other. Every handoff adds weeks of delay, more cost and more risk of getting classification wrong.
Today, Papaya Global, the AI-led global workforce and payments platform, is launching Papaya Talent to end that. With this launch, Papaya goes beyond paying employees and contractors and runs the full workforce lifecycle in one connected workflow.
How it works
- Plan and classify: Papaya is the clients’ business partner before they hire. ONE by Papaya, Papaya’s agentic compliance tool, helps companies plan their expansion. It compares countries on total employer costs, salary benchmarks, and legal complexity. It also shows whether the role can be engaged as a contractor (through Contractor of Record) or must be hired as an employee (through Employer of Record). So compliance starts before the hire, not after.
- Find: The company opens a role in Papaya Talent. Papaya AI matches it with specialist recruiters in the chosen market. Papaya Talent recruits in more than 100 countries, and qualified profiles arrive within 24 to 72 hours.
- Onboard: Before the offer goes out, Papaya’s compliance experts confirm the engagement model. Contracts are then generated and the new hire is onboarded in real time.
- Pay: The hire is paid in local currency, in real time, through Papaya’s own embedded payments infrastructure. Papaya’s payroll, EOR and payments services cover more than 180 countries.
A company hiring a senior engineer, for example, can compare Poland, Portugal and Spain on total cost and legal requirements, confirm whether the role should be EOR or COR, and only then brief a recruiter.
Compliance isn’t a final check. It runs through every step, from the first decision about where to hire to the first paycheck. Because the data is entered once, nothing gets lost between steps. The result is faster hiring and full compliance from day one.
“Global hiring is a compliance decision long before it’s a recruiting decision,” said Eynat Guez, Co-Founder and CEO of Papaya Global. “Companies shouldn’t have to find the right person first and learn afterwards that they can’t hire them compliantly. Papaya has spent the past decade solving how to pay a global workforce. Now we’re your business partner before you hire: we help you decide where, find the right person, and then engage, onboard and pay them, under one contract and on one platform.”
Availability
Papaya Talent is available now through Papaya account managers. Recruitment is delivered through a network of specialist partners, powered by RAMP Global.
About Papaya Global
Papaya Global is an AI-led global workforce and payments platform that enables multinational organizations to hire, manage and pay their people, with payroll, Employer of Record and payments services in more than 180 countries. Founded in 2017, the company runs the full workforce lifecycle as connected AI workflows, spanning talent, classification, onboarding, payroll, Employer of Record, Contractor of Record and compliance, on its own embedded payments infrastructure supported by licenses and banking relationships around the world. Papaya serves companies ranging from high-growth technology businesses to global enterprises. For more information, visit papayaglobal.com.