Oyster is a global employment platform that lets SMBs, scaleups, and remote-first companies hire, pay, and manage full-time employees and contractors in 180-plus countries without setting up local legal entities. Marketed as a global employer of record for distributed teams, Oyster combines compliant full-time employment, contractor payments in 140-plus currencies, automated benefits administration, equity programs, IP and tax compliance, and integrations with Slack, BambooHR, Greenhouse, and HRIS systems. Oyster is a strong fit for venture-backed startups scaling international engineering teams, remote-first companies replacing manual contractor payments, and HR leaders consolidating global hiring under a single compliance-managed platform.