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your VMS doesn't see.
Your VMS runs your staffing suppliers: agency contracts, SOWs, and POs.
Independent talent is the fastest-growing share of external workforce spend,
and most of it sits outside your VMS.
Each has to be classified correctly, and when one isn't, the liability is yours: back taxes, penalties, and reclassification claims that multiply across every worker and country.
Worksome manages that population directly, from onboarding to pay, so the talent your VMS misses is finally visible and compliant.
Your VMS runs your staffing suppliers: agency contracts, SOWs, and POs.
Independent talent is the fastest-growing share of external workforce spend,
and most of it sits outside your VMS.
Each has to be classified correctly, and when one isn't, the liability is yours: back taxes, penalties, and reclassification claims that multiply across every worker and country.
Worksome manages that population directly, from onboarding to pay, so the talent your VMS misses is finally visible and compliant.
Onboarding built for people, not suppliers
Independent contractors shouldn't fill out supplier forms or navigate a VMS to start working. Worksome gives them a simple, compliant onboarding flow, so they're productive in days.
Classify, contract, and onboard independent talent without requisition queues or lengthy supplier setups.
The specialists you want to retain get fast onboarding and reliable payments, the kind of experience that makes them say yes to the next project.
Right-to-work, classification, and contracts handled up front, so speed never costs you compliance.
What Worksome delivers for your independent talent
Your VMS was built to manage your staffing suppliers. Here's what Worksome adds for the independent workforce it doesn't reach.
Every independent worker gets classified against local rules, with misclassification indemnification.
Bring your direct hires, referrals, and alumni into one talent pool and engage them directly, without agency markup, so re-hiring talent you already trust costs less every time.
Pay contractors and employees directly with Worksome as the Agent of Record (AOR) or Employer of Record (EOR), in 150+ countries.
Your VMS doesn't track independent talent, so a growing slice of external spend stays invisible, and so do the savings hiding in it. Worksome brings it into view.
Works alongside the VMS you already have
Worksome sits next to your VMS and manages the independent talent it was never designed to handle.
Your VMS keeps running your staffing supplier and SOW spend. Worksome takes the direct and independent contractor population: classification, contracts, onboarding, and pay.
Worksome's open API pushes and pulls data across your stack, including your VMS, so program spend and worker data stay in sync. (Worksome connects through its open API; it does not resell or bundle third-party integrations.)
Start with the workers your VMS can't handle and expand from there. Implementation is white-glove and months faster than a traditional VMS.
How Worksome Compares to a Vendor Management System
- Your Vendor Management System
What Your VMS Handles
Best for: Managing third-party staffing agencies, corporate suppliers, and enterprise contingent spend. - Supplier Lifecycle Management
Centralizes staffing agency tiers, master requisitions, preferred vendor lists (PVLs), and SOWs.
- Requisitions and Rate Cards
Distributes requisitions, standardizes bill rates, and tracks submissions.
- Consolidated Invoicing
Approves and consolidates supplier invoices and program spend.
- Program Governance
Enforces procurement controls across your supplier base.
- Worksome
What Worksome Manages
Best for: Engaging and managing your independent contractors directly, from onboarding to pay. - Direct Hires & Independent Contractors
The direct hires, referrals, and independent contractors your VMS doesn't reach.
- Onboarding in Days
Classifies, contracts, and onboards independent talent fast, without supplier forms.
- Classification and Indemnification
Every independent worker classified against local rules, indemnified.
- Direct Global Pay
Pays contractors and employees directly as AOR or EOR, in 150+ countries.
Fits your agencies, MSPs, and VMS partners
Some programs run through an MSP, some are built around a VMS, and some are managed in-house. Worksome works inside your setup, not against it.
The independent talent that slips past your VMS shows up as off-program spend. With Worksome, an MSP can finally bring that direct and IC population under the same governance, visibility, and compliance as the rest of the program.
By adding Worksome, an MSP extends its program past agency supply to the direct and independent workforce, delivering the classification, onboarding, and pay coverage clients increasingly expect.
Worksome partners with VMS and MSP providers to extend what your program already does.
