THAILANDSICThailand Standard Industrial Classification

TSIC Activity

78200

Temporary employment agency activities

ประกอบกิจการให้บริการจัดหาบุคลกร คนงาน พนักงานชั่วคราว หรือพนักงานประจำ เพื่อเข้าทำงานในโรงงาน บริษัท หรือหน่วยงานทั่วไป

Definition

The provision of workers to businesses for temporary employment to replace workers of that business, where the workers provided are employees of the sending agency. However, sending agencies classified in this group do not directly control the workers at the workplace.

Foreign ownership

Not on the Foreign Business Act restricted lists.

The Foreign Business Act B.E. 2542 (1999) restricts majority foreign ownership only for the activities named in its three annexed Lists. This activity is not among the mappings we hold, so a foreign investor can generally hold up to 100% of the equity, subject to any sector-specific licence and to minimum-capital rules (typically THB 2 million per restricted business, or THB 3 million where a Foreign Business Licence applies).

If an activity is restricted, the routes to foreign majority

  • BOI promotion — the Board of Investment can grant up to 100% foreign ownership for promoted activities, with tax and non-tax incentives.
  • Foreign Business Licence — permission from the Ministry of Commerce to operate a List 2 or List 3 activity as a foreign-majority company.
  • US Treaty of Amity — US nationals may hold majority ownership in most activities, treated as Thai nationals for FBA purposes.

This is general guidance, not legal advice, and mappings are auto-derived. The schedules of the Foreign Business Act B.E. 2542 are the authority; verify against the Act, or ask us to check your specific activity. See the full foreign ownership reference.

See the full foreign ownership reference for all three FBA lists.

Companies registered since 2022

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New DBD registrations under this activity since 2022, the period the registry snapshot covers, not the full historical register.

850
Registered
since 2022
780
Still active
70
Dissolved
฿1.0M
Median capital
of active

New registrations per year

2022peak 221 in 20222026

Largest active companies by registered capital

Source: Department of Business Development (DBD) new-registration records, 2022 to present. Counts cover companies first registered in that window, reflect the latest snapshot load, and may lag the live register.

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