WEBINAR
US teams call European hiring slow. European teams call US hiring reckless. Workfully's UKI lead and a New York-based founder go head-to-head on what actually gets lost crossing the Atlantic - and what to do instead. Scale hiring into a new market and you inherit two bad options: force your home playbook onto a market that doesn't run on your assumptions, or start from zero and lose months figuring out what already works. Most multi-market TA teams pick the first option without realizing it. A US company hiring into Europe assumes speed is a virtue everywhere. A European company hiring into the US assumes process is protection everywhere. Both are wrong, in opposite directions. This isn't a US-vs-Europe roast. It's the closest thing to a field guide for anyone running - or about to run - hiring across both.
Not every assumption one market has about the other is wrong - some are earned from real experience, others are just habit mistaken for logic. Zoltan and Charlie go through the most common US and EU hiring assumptions and sort them: which ones actually hold up, which ones don't, and which ones used to be true and never got updated.
Not aspirational frameworks, concrete markers for where you actually sit. What "good" looks like for a single-market company with early US or EU ambitions, for a team actively running both, and for a mature multi-market operation. Valerio and Charlie put Workfully's own hiring motion against each stage, live, and don't always agree on where the line actually falls.
Works councils, notice periods, right-to-work checks, at-will termination exposure: the non-negotiables that hold regardless of which side of the debate wins. Charlie names where "moving fast" in the US quietly runs into a wall it doesn't see coming. Zoltan names where European process treats a genuine floor as an excuse to stop there.
Not every slow step is protecting you. Valerio makes the case for exactly which parts of a European hiring process are habit, not requirement - and where cutting time doesn't cut corners.
CEO at croissant . New York
Built and scaled Croissant from New York, hiring and running distributed teams across the US and abroad from the earliest days. Sees most "hiring across markets" advice as theory until you've actually had to make payroll and compliance work in a country you've never operated in.
UKI Country Manager at Workfully
Leads Workfully's hiring motion across the UK and Ireland. On the front line of what actually changes when a US-led company tries to hire into Europe for the first time - and what breaks when they assume it works like home.
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