Professional services

Client-site work needs an employment model and a site model.

Consultants, implementation staff, and specialists often work at a customer location, under your direction, for a defined project. That pattern is frequently employment. It also creates confidentiality, licensing, and travel questions that a generic EOR page does not answer.

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What changes for client-delivery roles

The customer site is not the employer, and a project date is not a contractor test

Posted or visiting work

Sending an employee into another country for a client engagement can trigger posted-worker, social-security, and immigration rules even if the home employment stays in place. Confirm the travel pattern before the first site visit.

Fixed-term employment

A project end date can be written as a fixed-term employment contract where local law allows it. That remains employment. It is not a substitute for classification as an independent business.

Confidentiality and client data

Client information, access credentials, and data-processing terms need to sit in the employment documents and in any data-processing chain. The EOR, the client, and your company can all be in that chain.

Professional licences

Law, audit, engineering, medical, and similar work can require a personal licence or a regulated firm. EOR employment does not replace that registration. Confirm it as a feasibility item, not as an onboarding leftover.

Professional-services questions

Direction of work still decides classification

Can client-site consultants be employed through an EOR?+
Often yes, if the role is employment with your company and a qualified local employer can hire the person. Client-site work can add posted-worker, visa, and health-and-safety questions that must be reviewed for the actual sites.
Does a project end date make the person a contractor?+
No. Fixed-term employment is still employment in many countries. Classification follows direction, integration, and local tests, not the existence of a project calendar.
Who holds professional licences when using an EOR?+
The individual and, where required, the practising entity. An EOR employment relationship does not automatically substitute for a local practising licence or regulated-firm registration.
Scope the delivery hire

Share the worksite, licence,
and expected assignment length.

We will help map the employing route and the extra questions that client-site work creates.

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Last reviewed: 29 September 2026. General operational information only; not legal, licensing, or immigration advice.