Stay compliant

End-to-end compliance for your contingent and remote workforce.

IES protects you from misclassification and mitigates co-employment risks – and the fines, tax liabilities, reputational damage, and class-action lawsuits that they can bring.

Engage workers compliantly, every time.

Let us handle the legal requirements for hiring employees, so that you don’t have to worry about the damaging consequences of non-compliance.

  • Compliant employment and contractor engagements with IES as the legal EOR / AOR
  • Compliant payments in all 50 states and 150+ countries
  • Legal classification for all workers, verified by our legal experts
  • Automatic, location-specific tax and benefit withholdings
  • Indemnification for reclassification penalties
  • Accurate, transparent financial reporting
  • Employer of Record (EOR) and Agent of Record (AOR) engagement solutions

Everything you need for workforce compliance

  • Baseline risk profile
    IES begins by analyzing your workforce, work locations, and policies to better understand your risk level and potential vulnerabilities. We then configure your program to keep you safe.
  • Risk reduction
    IES’s proven compliance process and AOR services protect your business from IC reclassification – and the fines, tax payments, co-employment lawsuits, and brand damage that can follow.
  • Accurate classifications
    Don’t leave worker classification to chance. IES has been evaluating potential ICs for compliance for decades, and we’ve never had a recommendation overturned.
  • Regional precision
    Requirements for hiring foreign workers and worker classification rules differ from state to state and country to country. IES’s Legal team knows every jurisdiction’s unique rules, so you ensure statutory compliance – wherever you find the right talent.
  • All worker types
    Hourly freelancers, SOW project workers, salaried long-term placements – talent comes in all shapes and sizes. With IES, you can recruit and compliantly engage every type of worker.
  • Long-term compliance
    Workforce compliance isn’t a once-and-done effort. IES ensures compliance throughout the engagement. We also stay on top of regulatory changes as they happen and update our processes accordingly

Baseline risk profile

Know your risk level from the start

IES begins by analyzing your workforce, work locations, and policies to better understand your risk level and potential vulnerabilities. We then configure your program to keep you safe.
Baseline risk profile

Risk reduction

Minimize the risk of using ICs

IES’s proven compliance process and AOR services protect your business from IC reclassification – and the fines, tax payments, co-employment lawsuits, and brand damage that can follow.
Risk reduction

Accurate classifications

Accurate classifications, every time

Don’t leave worker classification to chance. IES has been evaluating potential ICs for compliance for decades, and we’ve never had a recommendation overturned.
Accurate classifications

Regional precision

Ensure compliance, wherever you hire

Requirements for hiring foreign workers and worker classification rules differ from state to state and country to country. IES’s Legal team knows every jurisdiction’s unique rules, so you ensure statutory compliance – wherever you find the right talent.
Regional precision

All worker types

Engage all types of workers

Hourly freelancers, SOW project workers, salaried long-term placements – talent comes in all shapes and sizes. With IES, you can recruit and compliantly engage every type of worker.
All worker types

Long-term compliance

Safe now, safe later

Workforce compliance isn’t a once-and-done effort. IES ensures compliance throughout the engagement. We also stay on top of regulatory changes as they happen and update our processes accordingly
Long-term compliance
  • Baseline risk profile

    Baseline risk profile

    Know your risk level from the start

    IES begins by analyzing your workforce, work locations, and policies to better understand your risk level and potential vulnerabilities. We then configure your program to keep you safe.
    Baseline risk profile
  • Risk reduction

    Risk reduction

    Minimize the risk of using ICs

    IES’s proven compliance process and AOR services protect your business from IC reclassification – and the fines, tax payments, co-employment lawsuits, and brand damage that can follow.
    Risk reduction
  • Accurate classifications

    Accurate classifications

    Accurate classifications, every time

    Don’t leave worker classification to chance. IES has been evaluating potential ICs for compliance for decades, and we’ve never had a recommendation overturned.
    Accurate classifications
  • Regional precision

    Regional precision

    Ensure compliance, wherever you hire

    Requirements for hiring foreign workers and worker classification rules differ from state to state and country to country. IES’s Legal team knows every jurisdiction’s unique rules, so you ensure statutory compliance – wherever you find the right talent.
    Regional precision
  • All worker types

    All worker types

    Engage all types of workers

    Hourly freelancers, SOW project workers, salaried long-term placements – talent comes in all shapes and sizes. With IES, you can recruit and compliantly engage every type of worker.
    All worker types
  • Long-term compliance

    Long-term compliance

    Safe now, safe later

    Workforce compliance isn’t a once-and-done effort. IES ensures compliance throughout the engagement. We also stay on top of regulatory changes as they happen and update our processes accordingly
    Long-term compliance

How it works

IES’s robust reclassification defense, step by step

  1. Conduct a thorough, region-appropriate risk assessment for each engagement
  2. Notify your business and the worker of their risk profile
  3. Refer higher-risk workers to our Employer of Record (EOR) service
  4. Process invoices and payments 
  5. Maintain a detailed audit defense file
  6. Indemnify you if ICs are reclassified as employees

Compliant, cost-effective engagement solutions for every worker

Simplify remote and contingent workforce management.

Reduce HR admin burdens and stay fully informed through ies.WorkSite – our platform – that makes it easy to track and manage talent – in one place, from any device.

Ready to engage remote and contingent talent without the risk?

Trust the experts at IES to take compliance and co-employment worries off your mind. We’re your one-stop shop for compliant HR outsourcing.

IES celebrates 50 years of innovative workforce solutions!