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Staff leasing
Staff leasing is a commercial label for providing employed staff to a client. It is legitimate only when the lessor is a real employer. It is body leasing when they are not.
Also called employee leasing
How it works
Ask the same questions you ask an EOR. Who is on the employment contract. Who remits. Who can terminate under the Labor Code. Who owns the bench. If the answers are solid, you are buying managed people for a defined period. If the answers are a rate card, you are buying a risk. Staff leasing at BPO scale often sits next to a service-level agreement rather than a named-person guarantee. That is a different product than one EA.
Example: a firm leases a five-person finance pod for twelve months, employs them, remits, and replaces within two weeks if someone resigns. You direct the close. That can work. The same label on a single ‘leased VA’ with no statutory file does not.
How it differs
EOR is usually one or a few named people with you directing work. Legitimate job contracting buys a job outcome. Body leasing buys a pulse and an invoice.
Common errors
Skipping capital and remittance checks because the brochure said ‘leased employees.’
In practice
Treat Staff leasing as a week-one operating object. Name the employer on the contract and the manager in Slack. If those two names cannot both be true at once, the model is theater. Write an owner - founder, local employer, or worker - and a date you will look at it again: first cutoff, first holiday, or first miss. If nobody can show a contract clause, a payslip line, a calendar block, or a checklist box, you do not have staff leasing yet. You have a conversation. Convert the conversation before the person starts, while changing the deal still costs a paragraph rather than a resignation. Re-read the worked example above against the actual hire in front of you. If the numbers in that example cannot be swapped for this seat’s pesos, hours, and start date, the brief is still unfinished.