About Aspirock

Aspirock is an operator-led employer of record and payroll provider that helps companies hire, pay and manage people in 70+ countries without setting up a local entity. It was founded in 2021 by Mike Millsopp and built on more than 22 years of operational EOR experience, with over 5,000 workers supported across energy, technology, professional services and staffing. Every client works with a named account manager and experienced operators in the markets they hire in, rather than a self-service platform.

Across more than 22 years of operational EOR experience, Aspirock has supported over 5,000 workers in 70+ countries. It runs its own offices in six countries spanning Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, with particularly deep regulatory expertise in complex markets, the Gulf and Saudi Arabia among them. Clients range from businesses making their first hire abroad to energy groups running multi-currency payroll for hundreds of contractors in demanding jurisdictions. The common thread is that the work is done by experienced operators who know the markets they cover.

Aspirock is run by operators, not as self-service software. The practical difference is who you deal with: every client works with a named account manager reachable by phone and email, not a ticket queue that routes to a general agent. The people handling your payroll, contracts and compliance are the ones you can reach directly, with support seven days a week. In a category dominated by platforms, Aspirock's difference is that real people own your account and answer when it matters.

You get one named account manager as your day-to-day point of contact, backed by the in-country specialists who handle your payroll, visas and compliance in each market. Your account manager owns your account end to end and is reachable directly by phone and email, so routine questions go to someone who already knows your setup. When a situation needs specific local expertise, they bring in the relevant in-country specialist and stay accountable for the outcome, rather than passing you around. As you grow into new markets, the same account manager coordinates each one, so you keep a single point of contact across your whole footprint.

Yes. Accurate, on-time payment is the core of what Aspirock does, and it is handled by local payroll specialists in each market rather than one central process applied everywhere. Pay runs, tax, social security and statutory filings are managed to each country's own rules and deadlines, and contractor payments are processed promptly on the agreed schedule. When a local rule or rate changes, the in-country team adjusts the payroll and tells you what it means for your people before it becomes a problem.

It gets owned by a person, fast. If a payment is delayed or a compliance question arises, your account manager flags it, explains what has happened and works it without waiting for you to chase. Most issues resolve quickly because the person handling it already knows your account and the market it sits in. For anything more complex, that account manager brings in the in-country specialist and stays accountable for the outcome. Every issue is tracked so the same thing does not happen twice.

Aspirock works with three kinds of client: businesses expanding into new countries and hiring staff there, recruitment and staffing agencies placing contractors across borders, and individual contractors who need compliant payment infrastructure. It is built for companies that want experienced operators handling international employment for them rather than a do-it-yourself platform, and it is equally comfortable onboarding a single first hire abroad or running payroll for hundreds of workers across difficult jurisdictions.

Aspirock's deepest experience is in energy, oil and gas, engineering and EPC, and infrastructure, the sectors behind many of the world's large capital projects, alongside technology, telecoms and data centres, healthcare and life sciences, professional services, sports and entertainment, and staffing and recruitment. This matters because employing a software engineer and mobilising a project workforce onto an energy site are different problems, and Aspirock has handled both. Where a sector carries its own licensing or accreditation requirements, that is treated as part of the deployment, not an afterthought.

Looking after your people properly is part of how Aspirock protects your reputation as their employer. The staff and contractors you hire get a clear, compliant employment contract, accurate pay on time, and a point of contact they can reach directly with any question about their pay, benefits or paperwork. Because Aspirock is the legal employer in-country, it also handles the local statutory benefits, leave and end-of-service entitlements your people are owed, correctly and without them having to navigate it alone. When your employee is looked after well, that reflects well on you.

Aspirock charges a transparent fee with no hidden costs. For employees it is a flat monthly fee per person, with no setup charge and no long-term lock-in, and statutory costs such as visas, medicals and document attestation are passed through at cost with no markup. For contractors, pricing is agreed up front against the contract and payment pattern. The exact figure depends on the country and the role, and it is confirmed in a short conversation before you commit, so there are no surprises later.

Aspirock's terms are matched to the engagement rather than forced into a one-size tie-in. Many clients run on rolling terms, with the freedom to scale up as they hire or move staff onto their own entity later, and Aspirock supports that handover. For clients who want the stability and preferential terms that come with a longer-term agreement, those are available too. The relationship is built to last because the service holds, and the commercial terms flex to suit how you want to work.

Aspirock handles employee and payroll data in line with GDPR and applies the data-protection standards of each market it operates in. Where Aspirock is the legal employer, the employment contract is written to protect your business: confidentiality, intellectual property assignment and restrictive covenants are drafted so that whatever your employee creates belongs to your company, adapted to what each country's law will enforce. A data processing agreement is available on request. Aspirock does not own or claim rights over your data, your IP or your trade secrets.

Aspirock, as the legal employer in-country, carries the local employment obligations: the contract, statutory benefits, payroll tax, end-of-service entitlements and day-to-day compliance with local labour law. That is the point of the model. Your company holds the commercial relationship and directs the work, while the employment risk that would otherwise sit with you is managed by Aspirock's in-country teams. When rules change, Aspirock updates contracts and processes and tells you what it means for your staff.