About InfraLayer
InfraLayer helps international businesses build dedicated teams in South Africa without establishing their own local employing entity or assembling the operating infrastructure themselves.
The client defines the roles, selects the people and manages their work. Employees are employed locally through InfraLayer's South African EOR partner. InfraLayer manages the EOR relationship and the client-facing employment, payroll and HR administration delivered through that partner, while providing the wider operating infrastructure around the team.
Your team. Your systems. Your management line. InfraLayer provides the infrastructure underneath.
International businesses can access strong professional talent in South Africa.
The harder part is building everything required around the employees:
Businesses have traditionally had to arrange these elements separately or choose an operating model that changes who controls the team and the work.
InfraLayer was created to provide another route. It brings the employment and operating infrastructure together while the client retains direct control of the employees, systems, processes and performance.
InfraLayer calls this model Offshore Infrastructure.
What it typically providesPeople, infrastructure and management of a function or defined output
What remains different with InfraLayerInfraLayer provides the operating infrastructure around the team but does not take over the function or manage operational output. The client manages the employees directly.
What it typically providesTalent sourcing and introduction
What remains different with InfraLayerInfraLayer can source people but also coordinates local employment and the agreed operating infrastructure around the team.
What it typically providesLocal legal employment and payroll administration
What remains different with InfraLayerInfraLayer uses a South African EOR partner and combines that employment layer with sourcing, equipment, connectivity, support and workspace where required.
InfraLayer provides the whole stack beneath a team the client continues to manage.
What it typically providesTalent sourcing where required, employment through an EOR partner and wider operating infrastructure
What remains different with InfraLayerEmployees work inside the client's systems and management structure. The client retains direct operational control.
You define the roles, set the priorities, hold the reporting line and own the output.
InfraLayer provides and runs the four layers beneath
South African professionals are sourced against the client's requirements, or InfraLayer onboards someone the client has already identified. The client interviews, assesses and makes the final selection.
Local employment is provided through InfraLayer's South African EOR partner, which is the legal employer. Payroll, statutory administration, benefits and formal HR processes are delivered through that employment framework.
Locally procured corporate equipment, device setup and deployment, connectivity, power resilience, local technical support and replacement-hardware coordination are provided where agreed.
Professional Cape Town workspace and dedicated team environments are available where required. Workspace is not required for every engagement.
InfraLayer does not begin with a fixed package. The starting point is the team the client wants to build.
The requirement normally covers:
InfraLayer then defines the sourcing, employment and operating infrastructure required to support that team.
Responsibilities are agreed before anyone is hired. The client manages the people and the work. InfraLayer manages the EOR relationship and provides the wider physical and technical infrastructure underneath.
InfraLayer's primary commercial focus is mid-market companies, PE portfolio businesses and high-growth scaleups across the UK, Western Europe and North America. Selected larger enterprises and other international organisations may also fit where the operating requirement, management model and working schedule are suitable.
InfraLayer supports dedicated professional teams across Finance and Accounting, HR and People, Technology and Data, Marketing and Digital, and Operations and Transformation. The same infrastructure model can support one role, a functional team or broader capability.
InfraLayer can also work alongside transformation, transaction and Target Operating Model (TOM) advisers where dedicated South African capability forms part of a wider client programme.
A business can begin with one employee and build from there.
Formal employment actions are handled through InfraLayer and its South African EOR partner.
InfraLayer was founded by John Huskinson, whose career has focused on building and recruiting professional teams for UK and European businesses across the UK and South African talent markets.
That experience exposed a recurring gap. Businesses could source people, employ them through an EOR or outsource the work, but the employment layer, technical infrastructure, workspace and direct client control were rarely brought together through one client relationship.
InfraLayer was created to close that gap. Talent sourcing is one layer of the model. The infrastructure underneath is the business.
John has built and run a South African team for his own business, and the model InfraLayer provides is the one he had to assemble himself.
John Huskinson, Founder and CEO, InfraLayer
Not as a standalone EOR service. Employees are legally employed through InfraLayer's South African EOR partner, which is the legal employer. InfraLayer manages the EOR relationship as part of a wider model that can also include talent sourcing, equipment, connectivity, power resilience, technical support and workspace.
No. Employees are employed locally through InfraLayer's South African EOR partner, so the client does not need to establish its own South African employing entity.
No. Talent sourcing can form part of an engagement, but it is one part of the wider employment and operating infrastructure required to build a South African team.
Yes. A business can begin with one employee already identified, ask InfraLayer to source an initial hire or build a broader team.
No. InfraLayer does not manage the client's business function or take responsibility for operational output. The employees work within the client's business and are managed by the client.
InfraLayer is based in Cape Town, South Africa. The model can support remote employees, professional workspace and dedicated team environments depending on the client's requirements.
Tell us the roles, working model and infrastructure you require.
We will discuss whether people have already been identified, whether sourcing is required and what employment and operating infrastructure should be established.
Dedicated South African capability, managed by the client and supported by the infrastructure InfraLayer provides and manages.
