Journal of Management Research and Review (JMRR) · Research article · Open access
International Remote Work and the Governance of Employer of Record (EOR) Arrangements
Fernando Pacheco, Isadora Figueiredo
19 August 2026 · Vol. 2, Issue 8, pp. 643-656
DOI: 10.65150/EP-jmrr/V2E8/2026-11
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The expansion of remote work, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic but rooted in longer-term structural trends, created the conditions for the rapid growth of a new category of digital labour intermediary: the Employer of Record (EOR). EOR platforms act as the formal legal employer of workers on behalf of client companies operating in jurisdictions where they have no corporate presence, centralising payroll, compliance, and statutory obligations within a tripartite, cross-border employment architecture.
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- 19 August 2026
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- Vol. 2, Issue 8, pp. 643-656
- ISSN
- 3051-3588 (online) · 3051-357X (print)
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- CC BY 4.0 — free to read and reuse with attribution
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- Double-blind, at least two independent reviewers
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- EP Journals Group
Abstract
The expansion of remote work, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic but rooted in longer-term structural trends, created the conditions for the rapid growth of a new category of digital labour intermediary: the Employer of Record (EOR). EOR platforms act as the formal legal employer of workers on behalf of client companies operating in jurisdictions where they have no corporate presence, centralising payroll, compliance, and statutory obligations within a tripartite, cross-border employment architecture. Despite the scale of this phenomenon, the EOR model remains underexplored in academic literature. Scholarship on remote work has focused primarily on productivity, engagement, and organisational outcomes, while scholarship on platform work has concentrated on task-based gig economy intermediaries. Neither body of literature adequately addresses the EOR model, which mediates ongoing skilled employment relationships across national legal systems and produces accountability gaps that existing regulatory frameworks are ill-equipped to resolve. This article examines the EOR model as a structurally distinct form of digital labour intermediation, tracing its emergence from the structural conditions of remote work, analyzing its legal architecture and its divergence from existing regulatory categories, and proposing a research agenda grounded in platform governance and comparative employment law.
Keywords: remote work, employer of record, labour intermediation, platform economy, cross-border employment, worker classification, platform governance, employment law, digital labour
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Fernando Pacheco, & Isadora Figueiredo (2026). International Remote Work and the Governance of Employer of Record (EOR) Arrangements. Journal of Management Research and Review, 2(8), 643-656. https://doi.org/10.65150/EP-jmrr/V2E8/2026-11
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Fernando Pacheco, Isadora Figueiredo.
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In Journal of Management Research and Review, Volume 2, Issue 8, pages 643-656, published by EP Journals Group on 19 August 2026.
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10.65150/EP-jmrr/V2E8/2026-11 (https://doi.org/10.65150/EP-jmrr/V2E8/2026-11).
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APA: Fernando Pacheco, & Isadora Figueiredo (2026). International Remote Work and the Governance of Employer of Record (EOR) Arrangements. Journal of Management Research and Review, 2(8), 643-656. https://doi.org/10.65150/EP-jmrr/V2E8/2026-11
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