Hire offshore employees in Thailand
When you hire offshore employees through OffshoreWings, we become their legal employer in Thailand. Startups, SaaS companies, agencies and growing teams use this to add full-time people who work inside your team, without opening a local entity or taking on Thai payroll, tax or labour law.
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What being the legal employer means
When you hire offshore employees through OffshoreWings, each person has a legal employment relationship with our local setup in Bangkok, not with you. You do not appear as an employer under Thai law, so you do not carry Thai payroll, tax or labour obligations.
In practice, that splits cleanly. The legal and administrative side of employment is ours. The working relationship, what the person does and who they report to, is yours. New to offshore staffing as a category? Start with offshore staffing in Thailand.
Employees, not contractors
A contractor is engaged for defined work, invoices you, and works across clients. An offshore employee is hired into one company, paid through payroll, covered by local employment terms, and stays.
That difference decides where the obligations sit. The reasoning for this is that the person is an employee; Thai employment terms, benefits, and protections apply, and that side is ours to carry, not yours.
What you avoid by not building an entity
The reason most companies use this model is the disproportion. To employ a handful of offshore employees directly, you would otherwise need to do all of this yourself.
That is a standing operational burden for a few hires. We carry it. You get the employees without the entity complexity.
- Register a Thai legal entity and maintain it
- Set up and file local payroll and withholding
- Take on local labour law compliance and termination rules
- Lease and run an office
- Handle statutory contributions and benefits administration
What we handle, and what stays yours
The core of the model. OffshoreWings runs the local employment and operational setup. The work itself stays yours.
- Legal employment of the staff member in Thailand
- Monthly payroll and social security
- Office space, equipment, and IT setup
- HR coordination, contracts, and onboarding
- Local benefits, leave, and day-to-day employee matters
- On-the-ground support when something needs a person physically present
- What the role does and how work is prioritised
- Day-to-day management and direction
- Quality standards and review
- Which systems and tools are used
- How the person reports into your existing team
Not sure which setup fits your team?
A short first call covers which roles are under pressure, what your team looks like now, and whether the model fits.
Contact usWhat local employment in Thailand covers
Being the legal employer is not a formality. It is the local employment layer that runs every month, under Thai law. This is the part OffshoreWings carries, so your team does not have to.
Payroll and social security
Each employee is paid through local payroll in Thai baht. We run monthly salary, the statutory withholdings, and the social security contributions that go with local employment. You receive one clear invoice and never operate a Thai payroll yourself.
Leave, benefits and employment terms
Every contract follows Thai employment law: paid annual leave, public holidays, sick leave, and the statutory benefits employees are entitled to. We administer leave, benefits, and the local HR questions that come up, so your team does not have to learn Thai employment law to manage a person there.
Probation, notice and ending employment
Thai law sets the rules for probation, notice periods and severance. If a role changes or a hire does not work out, we handle the local process correctly, including the paperwork and any final settlement. You are not exposed to local termination rules, because the employment sits with us.
Why Thailand works for employing people
Thailand works for this model because the local side of employment is mature, not only the talent. There is a working social security system, clear employment law, and a deep local business-services market for payroll, HR and compliance. That is what makes long-term local employment practical, and it is the part our local setup in Bangkok runs. For the location in full, read why Thailand works for offshore hiring.
How hiring an offshore employee works
From the moment you choose someone, here is how the employment side runs.
- 01
Choose the person
You interview and select the candidate who fits.
- 02
Contract and offer
Our local setup in Bangkok issues the employment contract under Thai law.
- 03
Payroll and setup
Payroll, social security, equipment and the office are set up.
- 04
Onboarding
The person joins your team and starts inside your systems.
- 05
Ongoing employment
Our local setup in Bangkok runs payroll, benefits, leave and compliance for as long as they are employed.
One person, or a full team
Hiring a single employee and building a full team run on the same employment model. To see how several roles come together into one team and scale over time, read build an offshore team in Thailand.
Common questions about hiring offshore employees
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The useful first conversation is a short one: which roles are under pressure, what the work actually looks like, and whether the model fits.