Oyster vs
Deel
Global employment involves complexities that require more than a quick fix. While some solutions promise speed - it often comes at the expense of compliance.
Choose Oyster to expand your team and gain:
- A trusted partner that prioritizes compliance and long-term success.
- A team of dedicated experts with a human-first approach.
- Streamlined processes that scale efficiently as your workforce grows.
They want an experienced, strategic global partner they can trust—not just a global hiring solution. You too? Here’s how we’ll help you make your mark around the world.
Dedicated and reliable customer support
Oyster’s customer support extends well beyond platform glitches, with a dedicated team that provides quick and reliable resolutions for any challenge that arises.
Industry-leading compliance and knowledge
With Oyster’s experienced hiring success teams and built-in legal compliance, you avoid the runaround to find answers and take next steps.
Transparent timelines and predictable costs
Strategic partners guide you from day one, helping you build and implement a time- and cost-efficient global employment strategy that can scale as you grow.
How Oyster’s specialized solution can support your company’s long-term success
Scale your global team with technology serviced by humans
Customer support for global employment solutions must extend well beyond platform glitches. With Oyster, you’ll have a specialized support team, plus access to local HR and legal experts to provide guidance and insights, at every stage of your employee lifecycle.
Access the most comprehensive local intelligence for 180+ countries
Get everything you need in Oyster's self-serve platform and work with a partner that has done it all. From visas to local compensation, EOR migrations, and contractor conversions, Oyster experts can guide you through all of this and more.
Oyster HR excels in delivering a robust suite of professional services characterized by expertise, tailored solutions, and a client-centric ethos. Their team, renowned for its deep knowledge across diverse fields, not only guides clients but also crafts innovative strategies to navigate intricate challenges.
Expand your team confidently and predictably
Want to know the all-in cost of hiring an engineer in Spain? Oyster’s global employment platform details all the costs you will incur, so you can make competitive employment offers, with no hidden or unpredictable costs.
From the start, Oyster's sales team has gone above and beyond to ensure our needs have been met. Even long after signing, they have been available to answer questions and facilitate any concerns beyond the scope of the support team. The entire process has been very seamless, easy and reliable [...] In fact, we chose Oyster after evaluating many multiple EORs”
Discover how companies like yours have benefited from using Oyster
We are really impressed with the expertise they provide. Each country we work in, they have a dedicated team member with a lot of knowledge and expertise in the field of labor laws and employment practices within those countries."
Pacific Institute
Other success stories
Learn how Kinsta switched to Oyster from a legacy EOR to ensure a seamless employment experience.
See how Worldsensing achieved 20-25% YoY growth by scaling their sales team globally with Oyster.
Check out how Lokalise built a diverse global team by hiring talent in 45 countries with Oyster.
Discover how Neon scaled rapidly and doubled in size by hiring tech talent across 17 countries.
Migrating from
Deel
to Oyster?
You're not the only one, learn how our team has supported 1,000+ employees switching from another provider.
Get StartedFAQs
How does hiring with Oyster work?
Oyster offers Direct+ infrastructure. This means we hire through our own legal entities in the countries where we hire most and use local partners in the rest. This model allows us to offer our customers extensive country coverage and support all use cases without compromising compliance and local expertise. No matter where you hire the communication will solely be with Oyster’s team and we guarantee the same level of service.
How many integrations does Oyster have?
We offer 20+ free integrations including our API and Zapier that allows you to connect Oyster with thousands of apps. Connect seamlessly with the tools in your HR Teck stack, HRIS, ATS, ERP, expense management, security, enquiry management among others.
Can I run contract amendments in the platform?
Our platform is built with multiple self serve functionalities like in-platform contract amendments, payroll changes, time-off tracking and approval, reports (payroll, TM, invoice, expense), and benefit enrollment. You can also find detailed local employment in our intelligence tools whether it’s about total rewards or local compliance.
How does Oyster’s customer support work?
Oyster’s global team spans 62+ countries and has every time zone covered. Our specialized team is committed to defined timelines to respond to and resolve your requests thoroughly and quickly because we know when it comes to your people time and quality are of the essence. You will also get access to an internal team of experts including regional HR advisory, legal experts, benefits advisory, and regional payroll experts.
How do I switch from Deel to Oyster?
Oyster has migrated over 1000+ employees in the last year and is here to make the process easy and straightforward. Here are the steps you can expect when you decide to make the switch:
- Meet with the Oyster team to receive guidance on what types of information you need to collect from your current provider.
- Let your provider know that you want to make the switch and collect the above information.
- Communicate the transition with your team. (We’ll provide resources on all the benefits to them!)
- Prepare for the transition with the Oyster team. This includes mapping out contract terms and onboarding details. We can also meet for a Q&A session to answer any final questions.
- Kickstart the onboarding process. Don’t worry, your Oyster hiring success team has this covered.
- Get a check-in from Oyster to ensure you’re set up for success!
