​​One of my favorite parts of working with PEOs are the HR services that they bring to the table. They have so many resources available to their small business clients that many clients don't even know what they have available. A PEO can literally help transform your business. I am going to outline just a few examples in order to illustrate how comprehensive a PEO solution can be. You could say they handle everything from start to finish .... or hire to term. Here we go: *

When sales people or even vendors make the promise that their solution helps your business become more profitable, do you listen? Or do you just shrug it off as sales talk and carry on the conversation? If you are like most people, you tend to take it with a grain of salt, but if you are talking to a PEO, you should pay attention. According to a study done by a pair of economists over at McBassi and Associates, organizations that partner with PEOs are more likely to grow fa

As a small organization, how do you handle HR today? Do you have full time HR staff or do you have a patchwork of solutions to make it work? Maybe a payroll company and your broker or even a 3rd party consultant or CPA? A recent study conducted by the payroll company ADP indicates that 1.5 million small businesses spend billions on managing HR as an ad-hoc function. Do you have employees wearing multiple hats? If you think about your organization, does the following sound

There are a variety of reasons that organizations look to partner with a PEO. From purely a cost standpoint, benefits are one of the largest drivers of that decision. So, have you ever wondered how a PEO manages to get benefit rates that are traditionally better than you can get on your own even with the help of a broker? Let's walk through the basics. A PEO establishes a co-employment relationship with their clients. Essentially this means that your employees are all "poo

If you are new to the world of Professional Employer Organization, more commonly referred to as PEOs, here are the basics. A PEO is service that provides human resource and benefit solutions to small and mid size organizations. The service is delivered under a co-employment relationship - what this means is that the client employees are filed under the PEOs employer identification number (EIN). This relationship allows the client organization to have access to a multitude of