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The 6-Market EU Hiring Library Is Complete: What We Learned Along the Way

23.07.2026

Most companies treat "hiring in Europe" as one decision. It isn't. It's six or more separate decisions wearing the same trench coat. We've built this hiring library one market at a timeNetherlands, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, and now France because every one of those markets punished the shortcut of assuming the last country's playbook would work in the next one. What follows is the pattern we found underneath all six: what's genuinely differ...

Hiring in Luxembourg: Employment Law, Payroll & EU Gateway Guide (2026)

20.07.2026

Luxembourg is a small country with an outsized role in European hiring strategy. It is the EU's financial services capital, home to the bloc's key institutions, and uniquely among the countries in this guide series a labour market where nearly half the workforce crosses a national border every morning to get to work. For a foreign company opening its first Luxembourg role, this creates a genuinely different set of planning questions than hiring in Germany, France, or the Netherlands....

EOR vs Entity in Italy: Why the Math Is Different Here?

16.07.2026

Most companies run the EOR vs entity decision as a spreadsheet exercise. Headcount, monthly fee, setup cost, breakeven point. That spreadsheet works fine for the Netherlands. It gives you the wrong answer in Italy. Italy has three structural features -a 900-agreement collective bargaining system, a mandatory severance fund that accrues from day one, and a legal entity setup process with more fixed overhead than most comparable EU markets -that shift the crossover point later th...