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HR Solutions

HR One Stop Solutions

From hiring your first employee to managing a full team — OCTIS covers every part of your HR operation.

Find the right people, develop them, run payroll compliantly, or put people on the ground in Malaysia without setting up an entity.

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Which solution are you looking for?

Recruitment, training and payroll run as three standalone services, or bundle them into Employer of Record when you need a full back-office team without local headcount.

For businesses building and managing a team in Malaysia. Pick the solution you need — or run all three together through OCTIS.

Hiring into Malaysia from abroad

Employer of Record (EOR)

Your entire back office team, without the headcount
OCTIS becomes your legal employer on record — contracts, payroll, tax, company secretarial and HR/legal advisory, all under one monthly fee.
Best for: Companies putting people on the ground in Malaysia without building a local entity.
EOR is just the door in. Once your team is on OCTIS, the full back office — HR, accounting, legal, tax, company secretarial — is already here when you need it.

Why teams run HR on OCTIS

Recruitment, HRD Corp claimable training, payroll and EOR sit on one platform — so EPF, SOCSO, EIS and PCB are handled correctly every cycle, whoever's running it.

End-to-end
Recruit · train · pay · place
HRD Corp
Claimable training
No entity
Needed to hire via EOR

Explore each solution

Every service line, grouped under the solutions above.

One platform, every HR solution you need.

From first hire to full team

Recruit, train, pay and place people through one platform — pick what you need, when you need it.

Compliant by default

EPF, SOCSO, EIS, PCB and LHDN handled correctly every cycle, with licensed professionals behind the numbers.

Hire without an entity

EOR puts people on the ground in Malaysia under our legal employer, backed by a full professional back office.

Beyond HR, OCTIS runs the rest of your business too.

One login for compliance, HR, capital and more — explore everything else OCTIS does for your business. Scroll to see more.

Frequently asked

Are employers personally liable for unpaid EPF contributions in Malaysia?
Yes — company directors can be held personally liable for unpaid EPF contributions, and that liability doesn't depend on which payroll provider is used. OCTIS runs EPF, SOCSO and PCB calculations as part of every payroll cycle to keep contributions correct and on time.
Do I need to register a local entity to hire an employee in Malaysia?
No — an Employer of Record lets a company employ someone in Malaysia without registering its own local entity, with the EOR acting as the legal employer on record while EPF, SOCSO and EIS contributions and Employment Act 1955 compliance are handled at the rate fixed by law. OCTIS's EOR service puts people on the ground in Malaysia this way, backed by payroll, tax, legal and company-secretarial support.
Is the HRD Corp training levy compulsory for every Malaysian company?
No — the HRD Corp levy becomes compulsory once a company passes ten Malaysian employees, it's borne by the employer rather than the employee, and the obligation doesn't shift depending on which training provider delivers the course. OCTIS's training programmes are HRD Corp claimable, so an eligible company can recover the cost through its own levy.
Do recruitment agencies charge a fee even if they don't successfully place a candidate?
It depends on the engagement model — a retained search is paid for the search itself whether or not it ends in a hire, while a contingency or success-fee search charges nothing without a placement. OCTIS's recruitment service is success-fee based, so the fee is triggered by the placement itself.
What's included in an Employer of Record service besides running payroll?
An Employer of Record service typically also covers the employment contract and its legal compliance, and the statutory filings that come with being an employer, plus company-secretarial compliance for the employer entity itself. OCTIS adds full HR and legal advisory on top, through people who know the account rather than a generic helpdesk.

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