CottGroup Review (2026): Turkey EOR Specialist

CottGroup is not a global PEO. It’s a Turkish professional services group that has been doing payroll, HR outsourcing, and employer services in Türkiye for over 25 years. For companies that need a deeply local, compliance-first partner to hire in Istanbul, Ankara, or anywhere else in the country, CottGroup is one of the most established options on the market.

The company operates through a group structure. Its payroll subsidiary, Boss Yönetişim Hizmetleri A.Ş., is the official local payroll partner of ADP in Türkiye, which gives CottGroup a connection to one of the world’s largest HR and payroll networks. Their in-house HR management software, Informasoft (developed with TÜBİTAK support), and their payroll process management tool, Bordromat, are both built specifically for the Turkish regulatory environment. Something most Employer of Record (EOR) platforms simply can’t match.

CottGroup serves over 500 clients across 40 industries, including several Fortune 500 companies. Their team of approximately 130 people operates out of Istanbul (Astoria Towers Kempinski, Büyükdere Caddesi), and the company stores all payroll data in its own Istanbul-based data center. They’re also a member of the Accace Circle, a network of tax and advisory firms across Central and Eastern Europe.

Here’s the critical context that anyone evaluating CottGroup for EOR needs to understand: Turkish law restricts temporary labor relations (including EOR) to a maximum of four months. This means standard EOR arrangements, where a third party acts as the legal employer indefinitely, do not work the same way in Türkiye as they do in the United Kingdom, Germany, or the Netherlands. CottGroup has developed what they call a “Cott Hybrid Service Solution” to navigate this, blending elements of BPO, payroll outsourcing, and employer services to provide compliant long-term employment solutions.

This makes CottGroup genuinely different from what you’d expect from a global EOR provider listing “Türkiye” as a covered country. Most global EORs use CottGroup or firms like it as their in-country partner anyway.

The CottGroup offers a wide range of corporate services. We’ve summarised them below.

Payroll Outsource Services

CottGroup’s core offering. They run fully digitalized payroll for both local and multinational companies, compliant with all Turkish legislation. Payroll outsourcing services include salary calculations, SGK (social security) reporting, tax filings, severance calculations, and statutory benefits administration. Their Bordromat platform gives both managers and employees self-service access to payroll data. All processing happens in their own data center in Istanbul.

PEO / EOR / BPO Services

CottGroup provides employer services under its “Cott Hybrid Service Solution.” This includes acting as the legal employer for short-term engagements (up to 4 months under Turkish temporary labor law), managing payroll and compliance for employees sponsored through their entity, handling SGK registrations, and supporting work permit applications. For longer-term needs, they structure solutions through BPO and outsourcing frameworks rather than traditional EOR.

Full HR & Consulting

A broad HR consulting offering that covers recruitment and placement, HR process design, compensation and benefits benchmarking, corporate training, labor law consultancy, and SSI (social security institution) consultancy. They also offer KVKK/GDPR compliance services, which are increasingly important for companies with employees in Türkiye.

HR Technology (Informasoft & Bordromat)

Two proprietary platforms: Informasoft, a cloud-based HRMS fully compliant with Turkish labor law (TÜBİTAK-supported), and Bordromat, a payroll process management system designed by HR professionals. Both are built specifically for the Turkish market, covering everything from personnel records and leave management to automated payroll calculations.