The biggest draw of a PEO is its ability to save businesses money by providing a variety of HR-related services at an affordable price. Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) partner with client firms through a co-employment arrangement, where the PEO handles many critical administrative and human resources-related tasks. In return for these services, PEOs typically charge a percent fee, often … [Read more...]
5 Key PEO Services for Small Business
For small business owners in the know, PEOs have been a key component to their success. PEOs, or Professional Employer Organizations, are third-party companies that specialize in taking care of important aspects of running a business that most business owners would consider to be chores. Think of them as full-service HR departments for hire as well as price negotiators and a go-between advocate … [Read more...]
Hire A PEO to Get Peace of Mind
Owning a small business is tough. Let us help with Human Resource Management Houston to relieve some of that stress. Building a business is a 24/7 job. Even when you're not at the office, you probably think about work, about what needs to be done, and how to go about doing it. Your inbox is probably chock-full of unanswered emails. Your smartphone is probably pinging you non-stop. Everything … [Read more...]
PEO Power: Recruit Like A Big Corporation
They say that it’s an employer’s market out there when it comes to hiring. Ever since the recession and subsequent depression put millions of Americans out of work, a picture has been painted of hordes of unemployed and underemployed workers, many of them high-skilled, experienced, and willing to take whatever job they can get. Strangely enough, however, most small business would … [Read more...]
Outsource the Bureaucratic Bundle of Red Tape to a PEO
Learn how to metaphorically shred that bureaucratic bundle of red tape on your desk by outsourcing it to a PEO. No business owner likes paperwork. It’s time-consuming, labor-intensive, and a drain on your firm’s resources. According to the Washington Post, small business owners lose over a week of their time every year on tax preparedness paperwork alone! When one considers the forms and filing … [Read more...]
5 Signs You Found The Right PEO
A PEO-client relationship is by its very nature an intimate affair. PEOs, or Professional Employer Organizations, effectively act as co-employers for their clients’ employees. That means that for tax and general human resources purposes, a PEO is the employer of record. While that may sound a bit intimidating at first, in practice, all crucial decisions are still made by the client and PEOs take … [Read more...]
PEO: The Small Business Growth Weapon
What would 10 percent more growth in your business mean for you? Business growth is the name of the game. A business that isn't measurably improving either it’s ability to generate more revenue or operate more efficiently is stalling. In today’s harsh business climate, many small enterprises are simply stalling. McKinsey & Company puts small business confidence at its lowest level in … [Read more...]
Top 5 Professional Employer Organizations Houston Trends
An executive summary of the related trends and benefits of employing a PEO. What is a PEO? Simply put, a Professional Employer Organizations Houston (PEO) is an umbrella organization under which client firms (who are often small businesses) can outsource employee management tasks, such as employee benefits and payroll, as well as secure access to competitive insurance and healthcare … [Read more...]
PEOs: A Matter of Small Business Survival
Starting a small business is notoriously hard work. Building a business to last the test of time, even harder. Statistics show that half of all small firms fail within the first five years. A third manage to last a decade. Of course, any successful business owner will tell you that hard work is a given, but no matter how many hours you put in, the world always seems to be stacked against you and … [Read more...]
PEOs Leverage Your Business Growth
A quick look at how PEOs help small businesses take care of their workers. Among the most valuable PEO services are employer-sponsored retirement benefits, such as 401(k) (or similar) plans. These retirement benefits play a key role in a company’s ability to attract and retain skilled employees. While ubiquitous in most corporate benefits packages, retirement benefits are a hard sell for most … [Read more...]