# Your people function, covered.

URL: https://skillsforce.com.sg/services/hr
Title: HR Outsourcing & HR Support in Singapore | Skillsforce
Description: Outsourced HR operations, HR start-up operations for new Singapore offices, interim HR cover and work-pass support, without a full in-house team.
Service: HR Solutions

When HR is one stretched person, mid-transition, or not yet built, the whole function rides on a single point of failure. We step in, run the day-to-day, and keep it moving, so HR outsourcing leaves you with a properly run people function and no full HR department to carry in-house.

## What does HR outsourcing in Singapore include?

HR outsourcing hands your day-to-day people function to an external team: policies, handbooks, benefits, performance reviews and employee support. We set HR up from scratch for new Singapore offices, provide interim and backup cover, and handle ad-hoc Work Pass applications, Employment Pass, S Pass and Dependant's Pass, filed correctly.

## What HR outsourcing covers.

- **HR Outsourcing:** Your day-to-day HR runs without a hire: policies, handbooks, benefits, performance reviews and employee support, handled.

- **HR Start-up Operations:** Your new Singapore office gets a working HR function from day one, built from scratch and done properly.

- **Setting up in Singapore:** Land in Singapore with local policies, onboarding and salary benchmarking already in place, not figured out on the fly.

- **Work Passes Application Services:** Employment Pass, S Pass and Dependant's Pass applications, renewals and cancellations prepared and filed correctly on your behalf, so your hires can start and stay.

- **Interim & backup HR:** When your HR person resigns, goes on leave, or is buried, we step in so nothing stalls.

## When this is for you

- You're a lean team with one dedicated HR person, or none.
- You're a foreign company setting up or running lean in Singapore.
- Your only HR person just resigned, and contracts, leave and compliance now have no owner.
- Policies, handbooks or benefits are outdated, informal, or held together by memory.
- You are comparing HR outsourcing providers in Singapore and want to know what is actually covered.
- Your industry is not one of the seven we list, and you want to know it will not slow anything down.

## Useful links

The official sources we work from every day. Worth a bookmark if you handle any of this in-house.

- [CPF Board (employer)](https://www.cpf.gov.sg/employer)
- [Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS)](https://www.iras.gov.sg/)
- [Tripartite Alliance (TAL)](https://www.tal.sg/)
- [Ministry of Manpower (MOM)](https://www.mom.gov.sg/)
- [Pro-Family Leave (MSF)](https://www.profamilyleave.msf.gov.sg/)

## Frequently asked questions

### Can you be our HR department if we don't have one?

Yes. For lean teams with no dedicated HR, we run the function for you: contracts, leave, policies, benefits and employee support, and keep you compliant with MOM, CPF and IRAS without you learning the rules yourself.

### What happens if our only HR person resigns?

We step in as interim cover so contracts, leave, payroll inputs and compliance keep an owner. Nothing stalls while you recruit a replacement. Our guide on a resigning HR person walks through the handover risks to watch.

### Do you handle work passes?

Yes, as ad-hoc support under HR. We prepare and file Employment Pass, S Pass and Dependant's Pass applications, renewals and cancellations on your behalf, so your hires can start and stay.

### We're a foreign company setting up in Singapore. Can you build our HR from scratch?

Yes, that is one of our core cases. We put local employment policies, onboarding, salary benchmarking and benefits registration in place so your Singapore office has a working HR function from day one, not figured out on the fly.

### Do you only run HR for the seven sectors on your site?

No. Employment contracts, leave records, MOM submissions and CPF filings follow the same rules whatever your industry, so this side of the work transfers to yours unchanged. The seven sectors on our site are where our recruitment knowledge runs deepest, not the limit of who we run HR for.

## Related

- [Payroll Processing](https://skillsforce.com.sg/services/payroll)
- [Manpower Outsourcing](https://skillsforce.com.sg/services/contract-management)
- [Interim HR cover](https://skillsforce.com.sg/services/hr/interim-cover)
- [Fractional HR for SMEs](https://skillsforce.com.sg/services/hr/fractional)
- [Setting up in Singapore](https://skillsforce.com.sg/services/hr/setting-up-in-singapore)
- [When your only HR person resigns](https://skillsforce.com.sg/guides/only-hr-person-resigned)