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Worksome Review Summary
Score 8 out of 10
Currency
80+
Monthly fees
$599+ per employee
Payment options
Bank transfers, ACH direct debit, SEPA direct debit, BACS direct debit and all major credit/debit cards
As a certified HR professional, I have onboarded multiple employees with Worksome EOR over the years. Worksome offers many great services and can help employers hire internationally, but it also has some flaws in its offerings.
Here, based on my first-hand experience onboarding employees with Worksome and other EOR providers, I give my take on Worksome’s offerings in 2026.
Worksome Company Overview
Worksome is a relative newcomer in the HR services space. Founded in 2017 in Copenhagen, Denmark, the company now includes offices in London and New York and continues to expand its global services offering. While Worksome’s main focus is on sourcing and managing teams of freelancers (it has a talent bank of at least 30,000 of them), this company also offers its clients EOR (Employer of Record) and AOR (Agent of Record) services. It can help clients hire independent contractors in over 150 countries and hire full-time employees (FTEs) worldwide.
As a service provider aimed at providing clients with large teams of flexible workers quickly, Worksome is a good fit for larger companies that need to handle lots of talent at once. Enterprises with thousands of workers to handle will appreciate Worksome’s management tools and usefulness in quickly generating reports. At the same time, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can still engage this provider for support with their smaller yet highly distributed teams of employees and contractors.
Unfortunately, Worksome doesn’t post its prices online, and this can make it difficult to compare its services with those of other providers. However, we do know that it offers different packages for smaller teams and larger enterprises that are tailored to their needs. In this review, we’ll look into more than just pricing – we’ll dig deep into the details of what Worksome offers so you can decide if this is the best provider for your organization to partner with.
Worksome Key Features
Worksome is a relatively new company that has chosen to focus on sourcing and staffing solutions. It also provides EOR and other useful services. Its main features include:
1. Employer of Record (EOR)
Worksome’s Employer of Record (EOR) service is designed to allow client companies around the world to hire FTEs in places where they don’t have their own entities. Worksome is a hybrid EOR meaning that it owns entities in some countries and also works with partners in others to provide a potentially global reach.
It can hire in over 150 countries and territories which gives clients a lot of choice and lets them focus on the skills rather than the location of the talent they engage. At the same time, this format gives it less control over the quality of its service provision than a wholly-owned EOR.
2. PEO
The difference between an EOR and a PEO or professional Employment Organization is slight. Both help to manage all employee HR needs on a long-term basis, including managing their payroll, benefits, and PTO. However, the crucial difference is that a PEO doesn’t directly hire employees on behalf of its clients.
Instead, it works as a co-employer with clients that already own entities in various countries. Worksome provides PEO services in various international locations, though not currently in the USA.
3. Contractor Management
Contractor and freelancer management is Worksome’s main focus. While independent contractors may be hired for longer, more regular jobs compared to freelancers who might do one-off tasks, there is no clear legal distinction between these two categories in most countries. There is, however, an important distinction between contractors and employees in essentially all countries, and keeping this distinction clear is crucial.
Worksome offers a classification tool that lets clients quickly evaluate the positions they’re hiring for to see if contractors can legally fill them. This helps to greatly reduce the risk of misclassification of employees, which could otherwise have costly ramifications.
Worksome helps its clients connect with contractors both from within its own talent pool of over 30,000 people and externally through job boards and agencies. It can then provide background checks and onboard contractors quickly, even offering a three-day turnaround from sourcing talent to getting people working on the job.
Worksome then allows clients to easily manage their contractors through a simple freelance operating system. It charges nothing for clients to use its basic system but it does charge a package price to use its talent pool and to pay contractors in over 150 countries worldwide.
4. Recruitment
When a client signs up for a monthly package with Worksome, they’re assigned a dedicated case manager whose job it is to help the client navigate Worksome’s system to source workers. While these case managers are not active recruiters, the Worksome platform itself works like a recruiter instead. It helps clients create job postings and then connects them automatically to freelancers in its talent pool who have relevant skills and qualifications.
These freelancers are then contacted and offered the opportunity to apply for the positions they’re suited for. Worksome also uses multiple channels to help clients source their workers. It will post job postings on major job sites and staffing agencies that may have the specific talent clients are looking for. This multi-channel approach ensures that clients get a wide, diverse range of applicants to choose the best talent.
The Worksome platform also includes an applicant tracking system (ATS) and candidate tracker to help clients manage their recruitment processes. These tools let them short-list candidates, make appointments for interviews, and manage applicant documents and information as needed.
5. Payroll
While many competitors shy away from offering managed payroll services, Worksome is happy to provide them for clients around the world. It has specific programs for outsourced payroll provision in the US and the UK which handle pay for both FTEs and contractors (1099 in the US or outside IR35 in the UK). Global payroll programs can also be used to pay FTEs and contractors worldwide.
Worksome doesn’t advertise its own time and attendance tracking features but only provides templates for inputting this data into its system. It does, however, integrate directly with some popular HRIS (human resources information systems) like Sage and Workday. Clients will have to choose how they’ll input this data, which needs to be recorded regularly for each employee.
From it, the Worksome platform can directly calculate employees’ gross salaries, taxes to be withheld, deductions, and finally, net salaries. Once they’re calculated, Worksome pays these amounts to the right places – employees receive their pay, and payments are made to tax and social security authorities.
This managed payroll service is provided in compliance with the tax and employment laws of the US, UK, and all other countries where clients have employees. Employees are paid in their local currencies according to the law and receive detailed payslips for their records.
Clients can also generate reports from their payroll data to help them see where they’re spending money and asses their costs accordingly. Worksome promises its clients speedy payments to keep their contractors happy while it allows clients to pay their invoices up to 30-60 days later which allows a lot of flexibility for cash flow.
6. HR and Legal Compliance
If a client signs up for EOR service, its international employees are hired directly by Worksome and its partners who become legally responsible for them. Worksome manages all aspects of HR for these workers so that if they have questions about their paychecks or concerns about their leave allowances, they go directly to Worksome. This relieves a lot of the pressure of managing foreign staff that would otherwise fall on the shoulders of the client’s HR department, if it even has one.
Worksome also offers background-checking services to help employers assess their candidates fully before hiring them. However, its most important service related to compliance is assessing worker classification. While it does this for all clients, enterprise package clients receive an additional indemnity for misclassification protection. If employees are misclassified as contractors, Worksome pays for any mistakes and not the client.
7. Platform
These days, essentially all HR service providers have moved their offerings to online cloud-based platforms and Worksome is no exception. This platform is important from the beginning by helping clients source workers and track their applicants and candidates. Once selected, new hires can be onboarded by using an automatic system through which they e-sign contracts and submit their documents digitally.
Once onboarded, each employee has a profile in the platform that can be managed easily. The platform lets clients monitor PTO, payroll, and employee benefits. For contractors, it lets them manage invoices and expenses and combine them into simple, regular payments.
However, Worksome’s platform is missing several features that would make it usable as a standalone HRIS. It doesn’t have features for time and attendance tracking, employee experience, or workforce development. What it does offer, though, is a lot of out-of-the-box integrations to HR, accounting, and project management applications. Worksome also integrates with Zapier and its over 7000 web-based tools. It also features an API to help developers build custom integrations with other software.
Worksome Reviews
The average scores (as of the time of writing) were:
- Worksome Capterra = 4.8/5 (16 reviews)
- Worksome Trustpilot = 3.7/5 (89 reviews)
- Worksome G2 = 4.7/5 (27 reviews)
- Worksome Glassdoor = 3.3/5 (57 reviews)
Worksome Pricing
Worksome provides flexible pricing plans tailored to business needs, including the ‘Team’ plan for managing external workforces and the ‘Enterprise’ plan for large-scale operations with custom solutions. However, exact pricing details are not listed on the website.
Worksome Pros and Cons
As with all of its competitors, Worksome has a unique set of services and means of providing them. This creates a special set of advantages and disadvantages to using this provider, including:
- Pros
Integrations
Worksome’s platform can integrate with many popular accounting and HR applications and also includes an API for custom integrations with clients’ specific software.
Recruiting tools and talent sourcing
While many competitors avoid recruitment, this is Worksome’s main focus. It helps clients source the staff they need through its talent pool but also through external job advertising.
Global Payroll
Worksome lets clients manage and pay employees and contractors in over 150 countries.
- Cons
No fees are posted online
Many competitors are upfront about their prices, but Worksome is not. This can make it difficult and time-consuming to compare its services to others.
Limited features
Worksome’s platform lacks several features that would make it usable as an HRIS, though it can integrate with other popular HRIS tools.
No mobile app
Worksome doesn’t yet have a mobile app to let admins or employees connect to its platform conveniently.
Unique Selling Point
Worksome’s unique selling point is its focus on talent sourcing. Instead of employing direct recruiters, its platform is designed to connect clients with the workers they need. It provides an extensive talent pool of pre-vetted freelancers and also connects to staffing agencies and job boards to ensure clients find the right people.
Remote People Score for Worksome
8/10
Our expert score for Worksome
I came to this score by considering the following components in the following weightings:
Contractor Management features
25%
EOR features
10%
HR features
10%
Compliance features
10%
Platform features
10%
Pricing
20%
User reviews
15%
For each component, Worksome received the following score:
Contractor Management features
10/25
EOR features
6/10
HR features
8/10
Compliance features
10/10
Platform features
10/10
Pricing
18/20
User reviews
13/15
Overall Assessment: Worksome
Smaller companies can use Worksome to find contractors and hire FTEs internationally. However, this provider matches best with medium and large enterprises that may need to source hundreds or even thousands of freelance workers.
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