Right-sizing your global footprint, without losing your people
Entities in twelve countries, meaningful teams in five — and fixed costs everywhere. HSP helps you transition employees to EoR, consolidate what stays, and wind down what doesn’t — compliantly, and without losing the talent you built.
THE WORK BEHIND "LEANER"
What does right-sizing a global footprint involve?
Right-sizing means deciding, country by country, which entities still earn their keep — then transitioning employees to an Employer of Record where they don’t, consolidating operations where they do, and winding down the rest without leaving compliance loose ends behind.
- Footprint and cost review, country by country
- Entity-to-EoR employee transitions
- Compliant entity liquidations and closures
- Consolidated operations in retained markets
- Talent and institutional knowledge retained throughout
The footprint that powered your growth is now pure overhead.
Remote-era hiring and years of expansion left many companies with more entities than they need — and the carrying costs to match. If any of these sound familiar, it’s time for a footprint review:
Problem
Entities outnumber the people in them
Dormant and low-activity entities still demand filings, accounting, and governance — for a country where you employ two people.
Solved by HSP Group: transition those employees to compliant EoR employment — keeping the people and the market presence, dropping the entity overhead.
Problem
Fixed costs that no longer fit the strategy
Local accountants, legal services, registered offices, and compliance personnel in every country — costs that don’t scale down when headcount does.
Solved by HSP Group: a scalable model where costs follow your actual footprint, not your historical one.
Problem
Wind-downs are harder than setups
Entity dissolution is slow, country-specific, and unforgiving — a closure done wrong leaves liabilities, penalties, and directors still on the hook years later.
Solved by HSP Group: liquidations and closures managed end to end — final filings, deregistrations, and clean exits in every jurisdiction.
Problem
Restructuring spooks your people
Employment transfers raise immediate questions — about benefits, tenure, and job security — and handled badly, they cost you the very talent you’re trying to keep.
Solved by HSP Group: structured communication plans, benefits benchmarking and continuity, and transitions your employees barely feel.
FOOTPRINT OPTIMIZATION SERVICES
From Footprint Review to Compliant Exit — Every Step Covered
HSP manages the full arc of a footprint rationalization: the analysis that identifies which markets justify an entity, the employee transitions that protect your people, and the wind-downs that close every obligation behind you.
Footprint & Cost Analysis
Country-by-country review of entities, headcount, obligations, and carrying costs — and the break-even case for each market.
Entity-to-EoR Transitions
Employee transfers to compliant EoR employment with contracts, benefits continuity, and payroll cutover managed end to end.
Entity Liquidations & Closures
Compliant dissolutions, final statutory filings, tax deregistrations, and clean exits in every jurisdiction.
Employee Communication & Continuity
Transition communication plans, benefits benchmarking, and change management that preserves trust and retention.
One partner for a leaner global footprint
Scale down the structure without scaling down the team — and keep everything that remains compliant and visible.
Employer of Record
Employer of Record
Entity Dissolution & Closure
Entity Dissolution & Closure
Entity Management & Compliance
Entity Management & Compliance
Global Payroll
Global Payroll
Technical HR Advisory
Technical HR Advisory
Accounting & Tax Compliance
Accounting & Tax Compliance
Footprint Decisions Powered by GateWay
Right-sizing starts with seeing the true cost of each market. GateWay gives you entity-by-entity visibility into obligations, deadlines, and activity across your footprint — then tracks every transition and wind-down milestone in one place, with full audit trails.
The Preferred Partner for Global Expansion
See why leaders at the world’s fastest-growing companies choose HSP to consolidate vendors, ensure compliance, and scale seamlessly across 100+ countries.
CASE STUDY
Kovalus Finds the Right Global HR Partner in HSP Group
“Any company looking to expand globally and not know where to start, I would advise them to start with HSP.”
CASE STUDY
How Acquia Streamlined Global Entity Compliance with HSP Group
"Since going live, our team has reported significant quality improvements and time efficiencies in the work we have received, along with a sense of comfort that our international entities are well looked after."
CASE STUDY
How FacilityOS (formerly SCLogic) Expanded to Sweden with Fast, Compliant Entity Setup
Even though HSP operates across a variety of countries and offers the full-suite of global expansion solutions, they continue provide us with a single point of contact, making our engagement feel like a collaborative partnership.”
Why Partner with HSP for Footprint Optimization?
We deliver right-sized global operations that cut fixed costs, retain your talent, and exit markets without leaving liabilities behind.
Keep the People, Drop the Overhead
Closing an entity doesn't have to mean losing the team. EoR transitions let you retain talent and institutional knowledge in-country — with continuity of pay and benefits — while retiring the entity's entire compliance and cost burden.
Exits Without Loose Ends
Every jurisdiction has its own dissolution process, and shortcuts become liabilities. HSP manages liquidations, final filings, and deregistrations completely — so a closed market stays closed.
Reversible by Design
Markets change. Because your people remain employed via EoR and your data lives in GateWay, scaling back doesn't burn bridges — you can re-enter or re-establish an entity whenever the business case returns.
WHAT FINANCE & OPS LEADERS ASK US
Common questions about right-sizing a global footprint
As a rule of thumb, below roughly five employees in a country, the fixed costs of an entity — accounting, filings, governance, local services — often exceed what EoR employment would cost, though the break-even varies by country. A footprint and cost analysis gives you the actual number for each market.
Yes — that’s the core of the model. Employees transition to compliant Employer of Record employment, keeping them in-country and on payroll without interruption, while the entity is wound down behind them.
It varies widely — from a few months to well over a year depending on the country, the entity’s history, and outstanding obligations. Sequencing matters: employee transitions, final filings, and tax deregistrations each have their own timelines, which is why wind-downs are planned as a program, not a single event.
Handled properly, employees experience continuity — benefits are benchmarked and matched or improved, service history is addressed in transfer documentation, and pay is uninterrupted. The transition plan includes proactive communication so people hear the plan from you, with answers ready, before rumors fill the gap.
