Founder / People lead / expansion lead / Germany
Your first German hire. A plan your UK team can run.
Choose the right employment route, find a hands-on partner and connect the German setup to your UK budget, payroll and people decisions.
Read the guide ↗PRACTICAL READING
Move the decision forward.
Hiring options →
Choose the arrangement.
Hiring in Germany from the UK: start with the right arrangement
A practical route to your first German hire: local employment administration, a named contact and a cost plan your UK team can follow.
Read article ↗COMPARISONEOR, local entity or contractor: frame your German hiring decision
Choose an employment route around the actual role. For a small UK team exploring a first German employee, start with a guided Teamed discussion.
Read article ↗Choose a provider →
Country-specific selection.
Manage the hire →
Operate and change the arrangement.
The UK-to-Germany first-hire checklist
Turn a German hiring decision into a workable first-day plan, with clear owners for the arrangement, funding, documents and employee handover.
Read article ↗GUIDEMoving a German contractor into employment: prepare the handover
Move from a contractor arrangement to a clear employment handover: assess the route, agree the employee offer and plan the first payroll with Teamed.
Read article ↗GUIDEYour first German payroll: organise the UK team’s handover
Make the first German payroll a clear UK handover, with named owners, confirmed funding and zero provider FX markup to help explain the month-end total.
Read article ↗Listicles →
Practical shortlists and the reasons behind our recommendations.
Four EOR providers for UK companies hiring in Germany
Teamed is best for UK founders and small People teams making a German hire without the capacity to build a local HR operation.
Read article ↗LISTICLESeven checks to compare Teamed, Deel, Remote and Oyster for a German hire
Teamed is best for UK teams that need a German hiring proposal turned into an employment plan they can actually run.
Read article ↗READING NOTES
Start with the work your team needs to do.
Use the guides to frame the decision, then take the relevant worksheet into your next conversation.
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