The Josh Bersin Company Global Employment At Scale: Oyster Founder Tony Jamous Explains
Feb 24, 2026
Tony Jamous, founder and executive chairman of Oyster who built a global employment platform to democratize work. He explains how EORs enable hiring in 150+ countries. Topics include onboarding workflows, balancing tech with human-centered service, compliance automation, AI for scaling operations, and strategic differences between integrated EORs and legacy vendors.
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Planetwide Employment Market Is The Mission
- Oyster's mission is to make planet Earth one employment market to reduce wealth inequality.
- Tony Jamous built an employer-of-record platform with entities in 150+ countries to hire, pay, and manage employees through one invoice and payroll.
Pandemic Shifted EOR From Elite To Mainstream
- The EOR model existed for decades but was high-cost and enterprise-only before the pandemic.
- The pandemic plus software moved the market downstream so SMBs can hire globally like large tech firms.
Use An EOR To Onboard One Employee End To End
- Do onboard international hires through a single EOR platform to generate compliant, localized contracts and run payroll centrally.
- Oyster guides pay fairness, benefits, and lets the new hire sign and become an employee of the local Oyster entity in that country.
