Remote hiring has opened Africa’s talent market to European tech teams. Hiring is the easy part. Keeping that engineer paid on time, legally employed, fairly treated, and still on your team two years later is where most companies get it wrong.

I have spent 12+ years running people operations across West and Central Africa, working alongside UK and US teams on staff and contractors who moved between both regions. I have seen contracts that broke local labour law without anyone noticing, notice periods that differed country by country until a termination went wrong, and benefits that looked generous on paper but failed on the ground.

You will leave with:

- What changes when you employ someone in another country, and when an employer-of-record helps or hurts.
- The contract, payroll, and benefits mistakes that quietly push good engineers to leave.
- How to keep policies consistent across countries without pretending every law is the same.
- The questions to ask before you send that first offer

Real cases, anonymised, and what fixed them. No legal jargon.