“The entity that made sense for forty people now serves nine, and the audit invoice just arrived.”
We take over the employment, you close the entity.
When headcount no longer justifies the infrastructure, we move your team onto our entities with terms matched or improved, keep payroll on its existing calendar, and you wind the entity down on your timeline.
What happens when you close a foreign entity but keep the team?
The employees transition onto an Employer of Record’s local entity, keeping compliant employment, payroll and benefits while the original entity winds down. With LanceSoft, terms are matched or improved, continuity of tenure is treated per local rules, and payroll is sequenced to continue on schedule, so you close the entity without losing the team or the market.
A twelve-person entity carries the overhead of a two-hundred-person one: annual statutory audits, corporate filings, local directorships, a registered office, payroll vendor contracts, and the management attention that ties it all together. When headcount falls or plans change, that infrastructure becomes a tax on standing still.
The move is also reversible, which is what makes it strategic rather than defensive. Keep the team on our entities for years, or rebuild your own entity later and take the people back onto your paper. Either way, the market presence, the customers and the institutional knowledge never leave. Throughout, HummingBird holds the single record: every transferred employee, contract and payslip visible across countries in one view.
The difference, side by side.
Without a partner
- Audits, filings and directorships for a small team
- Fixed infrastructure cost regardless of headcount
- Management attention drained by administration
- Exiting would mean losing the team and the market
With LanceSoft
- The team continues seamlessly on our entities
- Entity overhead ends; compliance continues
- Terms matched, payroll sequenced to stay on schedule
- Fully reversible if scale ever returns
Statutory exposure check
Not sure where your compliance gaps are?
A 30-minute call with a Regional SPOC maps your exposure country by country: classification, filings, benefits and remittances. No deck, no pitch.
Your path from here
Employees, benefits and obligations per country
Onto LanceSoft entities, terms matched, tracked in HummingBird
Payroll and benefits sequenced to continue uninterrupted
Wind down the entity on your timeline
Does this sound like you?
- Headcount fell but the infrastructure never did
- Entity running costs now rival the payroll of the team inside it
- Finance keeps asking why the entity still exists
- You would exit the market entirely, except you want to keep the people
Zero onboarding fees · exit with statutory notice only · terms in writing before you commit
Keep the entity, close and use EOR, or exit
Full control, full running costs
Audits, filings and directors continue
Justified while headcount and revenue support it
Best at genuine operating scale
Team continues on LanceSoft entities
Overhead ends; compliance continues
Reversible whenever you choose
Best when infrastructure outweighs headcount
Team lost, presence lost
Rehiring later starts from zero
Often more expensive than it looks
Best only when the market itself is done
Why LanceSoft
- On our paper, seamlessly50+ self-owned entities ready to receive your team.
- Zero transition feesOnboarding transferred employees is free, in writing.
- Sequenced around payrollSequenced around pay cycles to keep every payday on schedule.
- Terms matched or improvedEmployees feel a handover, not an upheaval.
- Reversible by designMove back onto your own entity whenever scale returns.
50+ self-owned entities · 100+ countries
Where do you need people next?
50+ self-owned entities, a disclosed partner network in 50+ more. Check the map before you plan the quarter.
Human led, tech enabled
Every engagement runs on HummingBird.
As entities consolidate, HummingBird becomes the single record: every employee, contract and payslip in one place, reported across countries in one view.
Licensed to operate
Labour leasing licenses, held on the ground.
LanceSoft holds labour leasing and employment agency licenses with national authorities across the world, so your workforce is engaged on real licenses, in the worker’s own country.
Quick answers
Can employees keep their benefits when moving to an EOR?
LanceSoft matches or improves existing terms wherever local law allows, and manages the transition so employees experience continuity, not disruption.
Does closing an entity mean exiting the market?
No. Your team keeps working for you through LanceSoft’s entity. You exit the administrative burden, not the market.
Is tenure preserved?
Continuity of tenure is treated per local rules in each country, and we tell you plainly where local law treats the move differently.
What does keeping a small foreign entity actually cost?
Beyond salaries: annual statutory audits, corporate filings, local directorship and registered office fees, payroll vendor contracts and internal administration. For small teams, this overhead often rivals the payroll itself.
How long does an entity consolidation take?
After the obligation mapping, LanceSoft gives you a dated per-country plan. Employee transitions are sequenced around payroll cycles; the entity wind-down then runs on your advisors’ timeline.
Can we rehire on our own entity later?
Yes. If you rebuild an entity in the country, we manage a clean transition of the team back onto your paper, the same way they arrived.
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