Employer of Record (EOR)
Also known as: EOR · employer of record
Definition
A third party that legally employs workers on behalf of another company, taking on payroll, taxes, benefits and statutory compliance. Lets a company hire in a country where it has no legal entity of its own.
Why it matters for HRIS ↔ payroll sync
EORs solve the legal hiring problem but rarely fix the data problem: the EOR runs payroll in their own system, and the customer still wants the worker to show up in their HRIS as if they were any other employee. Without a connector, employee changes happen twice, in two systems with two cut-off dates. stoa supports the same canonical schema regardless of whether payroll is run by a direct entity or an EOR partner, so the HRIS stays the single source of truth.