At Oyster, we’re passionate about enabling companies to hire great talent, regardless of where they’re located. This means giving People and HR leaders access to country-specific knowledge, employment intelligence, and data-backed insights, so they can hire confidently and compliantly anywhere in the world.
That’s why we’re delighted to be a trusted content partner for Galileo, an AI-powered expert assistant for HR developed by the Josh Bersin Company. Content from Oyster’s global hiring guides will be used to power Galileo’s responses to questions on global employment regulations and statutory requirements in 55+ countries.
Thanks to this partnership, Oyster’s global employment knowledge and insights will now be available to corporate members of the Josh Bersin Company, empowering them with regulatory knowledge and employment best practices around the world.
What is Galileo?
Launched in the spring of 2024 and used by HR leaders in some of the world’s largest organizations, Galileo™ is the leading AI-powered expert assistant specifically developed for HR. An always-on resource, Galileo provides detailed, accurate, and trustworthy answers to questions covering every area of HR, including talent acquisition, corporate training, diversity and inclusion, organizational design, performance management, global HR operations, and more. Beyond answering questions, Galileo can also compare vendors, create implementation plans, and draft RFPs, as well as offering guidance with real-world benchmarks and case studies.
Crucially, Galileo’s answers can be trusted because it’s been trained on 25 years of the Josh Bersin Company’s research, insights, and expertise. In other words, it generates responses based on an extensive library of HR and management research, thought leadership, case studies, and other content published by the Josh Bersin Company. It’s now further enriched by vetted content from a select set of trusted content partners, including Oyster. Galileo relies on 50,000+ verified assets to answer HR-related questions thoroughly and meaningfully. In addition, Galileo cites its sources so users can click on a citation and be taken directly to the source material being referenced.
Oyster is Galileo’s global HR knowledge partner
As a trusted content partner, Oyster supplements Galileo’s HR knowledge by contributing global HR expertise, including country-specific employment regulations and statutory requirements in 55+ countries, from Argentina to Vietnam. Our global hiring guides will enable Galileo to answer global employment queries on topics like vacation policies, parental leave, employer taxes, notice periods, and more.
Galileo will answer these questions based on information in Oyster’s country hiring guides, so users will only receive information that’s been legally vetted. Because Galileo cites its sources, users will also be able to click through to the hiring guide to learn more.
Armed with Oyster’s country-specific knowledge and insights, the Josh Bersin Company’s corporate clients will be able to make informed decisions about hiring global talent based on the statutory requirements and best practices in each country.
Towards a future of HR shaped by data and insights
People and HR teams are increasingly harnessing the power of data and insights to solve workplace problems, inform their people strategy, and contribute to business goals. That’s why Oyster is proud to partner with the Josh Bersin Company as a trusted source of global employment knowledge for HR teams at major companies worldwide.
But it doesn’t stop there. As a staunch advocate of the People function, Oyster seeks to empower and elevate People and HR leaders to become strategic partners within their organizations. This means equipping them with real-world employment data, up-to-date regulatory knowledge, and country-specific hiring intelligence covering the entire employment lifecycle.
That’s why Oyster’s global employment platform has employment intelligence built into it, with features like pre-filled employment terms based on location, contract quality scores, and country-specific insights surfaced by a virtual hiring assistant. In addition, we offer a free suite of global employment tools to calculate the cost of hiring in a particular location, assess misclassification risks, build competitive compensation packages using real-world salary data, and more. With these tools and insights, People teams can make robust offers, attract top talent from around the globe, and retain team members with fair and competitive rewards.
Creating a fairer world of work
Oyster is a global hiring intelligence platform that will check contracts for potential compliance issues, help People teams build a compensation philosophy, benchmark customer total rewards data against market data, and more. By building the next generation of HR tools, we hope to not only empower People professionals, but also contribute to a more fair and equitable system of global employment that elevates talent around the world.
Want to learn more? Check out Galileo and try out Oyster’s global employment tools to elevate your global talent strategy.
About Oyster
Oyster is a global employment platform designed to enable visionary HR leaders to find, engage, pay, manage, develop, and take care of a thriving distributed workforce. Oyster lets growing companies give valued international team members the experience they deserve, without the usual headaches and expense.
Oyster enables hiring anywhere in the world—with reliable, compliant payroll, and great local benefits and perks.
