"If you're under 200 people and opening a foreign subsidiary to hire 3 employees you're just burning money" from Reddit r/saas, ranked #9. By EmmaSkye319, 1 score, 0 comments. Data from Daily Trends.
If you're under 200 people and opening a foreign subsidiary to hire 3 employees you're just burning money
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- EmmaSkye319
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- 3/29/2026, 11:43:45 PM
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- 3/30/2026, 12:00:00 AM
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If you're a sub-200 person SaaS company setting up a foreign subsidiary just to hire a handful of people, you're lighting money on fire for the privilege of doing your own compliance. I keep seeing founders get quoted €50-80K in setup costs plus ongoing accounting and legal maintenance, and I truly don't understand the logic when an EOR costs maybe €500/mo per employee and you can have someone onboarded in days instead of months. the math doesn't even come close to breaking even until you're well past 15-20 hires in a single country, and by then half those early hires might have already churned anyway. what got me thinking about this was a LinkedIn post I just bookmarked, some AI company that scaled to 500+ employees globally. their entire People Ops team is 3 people and they hired 25 people across 8 countries in 6 months without setting up a single entity, meanwhile I know founders with 40 person companies spending months incorporating in the Netherlands to hire 2 engineers. What ...