What is a PEO?

Welcome to your PEO 101 lesson. We’ll learn about the basics of Professional Employer Organizations (PEO). A professional employer organization (PEO) is a company that makes having employees easier, and removes the details that distract you from your calling, as a business leader.

The ABC’s of PEO Business Protection

These are the three things PEO companies relieve you from.

Administrative Burdens

Burdens that take your attention away from growing your business. Don’t let daily, mundane hassles slow you down.

Business Costs

Costs which hurt your profitability. Workers’ compensation, health benefits and employee lawsuits will all cost you money.

Compliance Risks

Risks that endanger your ability to stay in business. Federal, state and local governments all have legislation that impact your business.

Why PEO Companies Exist

Today’s business owners are faced with more challenges than ever. Most of these challenges can be put into two main challenge areas dealing with:

How to survive
How to grow

PEOs exist to be a partner that can help your business deal with both of these challenges.

They help guard, protect, and nurture what you’ve worked so hard to build.

Professional: A person engaged in a specified activity as one’s main paid occupation rather than as a pastime.

Employer: A person engaged in the act of employing employees.

Calling a PEO a “professional employer” is very accurate because they are professionals at being an employer. Their focus is everything that has to do with employment. Do you want to be a professional employer? We’re guessing you’d rather spend your time and energy on the things you enjoy doing for your business.

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What Can a PEO Help YOU with?

Simplifying payroll and tax for your business
Normalizing cash flow
Becoming more stable and having a better chance of survival by reducing common business risks
Growing more strategically and pain free
Creating better business process efficiencies
Controlling common business costs
Managing ever-increasing employment laws and regulations
Dealing with rising healthcare costs and challenges and offering more competitive employee benefits
Selling or transitioning your business
Freeing up internal HR talent to work on strategic tasks
Finding time and focus for profit producing tasks

Professional Employer Organizations 101

Professional Employers Organization
PEO stands for Professional Employers Organization.
What a PEO is NOT...
PEOs are not staffing companies or simply payroll companies.
Number of Employees
PEO companies can be a great option for companies with any number of employees (even companies with in-house HR teams).
PEO companies and the co-employment model
PEO companies make use of the co-employment model. Co-employment is the relationship you enter when you partner with a PEO. Sometimes this is referred to as joint employment or employee leasing. In the co-employment model, you still control your employees’ daily duties and core job functions, the PEO/co-employer does not supply a workforce, but they handle the administrative functions and often liabilities that come with having employees.
Lightens Your Employee Administrative Burdens
When you work with a PEO you have less of the small stuff like employee paperwork, payroll hassles, and other administrative duties on your plate. So you can focus on the big stuff!
Shared Liability
For most small businesses, one employee lawsuit could jeopardize its very existence. However, when they have the added support and shared liability of a PEO they have an added layer of protection and stability. The PEO shares the risk of employment-related legal issues and other financial burdens.
Employee Leasing
This is just another term for co-employment or joint employment. It means that you partner with a PEO and they become the “employer of record.” Simply put, this is a unique HR outsourcing arrangement and how the PEO shares your liability and takes all your administrative burdens away.
Maintain Sharper Focus On Growing Your Business
Free yourself and your staff to focus on your areas of expertise, business profitability, and growth. A PEO focuses on all your employee related details so you can focus on growing your business.

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Yeah, I guess you could say we’re a little different. Okay — we’re A LOT different than other national PEO companies. How you ask?

What Make us Different

How a PEO partners with Employers

EMPLOYERS RESOURCE MODEL

Our PEO Services Will Add Hours of Productivity Back To Your Week

Human Resources & Compliance

You and your HR team probably don’t have the kind of time you need to keep up on ever changing legislation on top of all the other HR related tasks like unemployment claims management, new hire reporting, and employee issues.

We take care of all these tasks for your company so you can focus on strategic business initiatives. We’ll provide up-to-date advice to keep your company in compliance with state and federal employment laws.

Payroll & Tax

Payroll and tax services are a core part of our partnership. But we are so much more than a simple payroll solution. We custom fit our service for your business. We take care of checks, W2s, direct deposit, special reports, all employment tax filings and more.

We operate in all 50 states to serve you wherever you employ, and we are ready to scale with you. We want to release you and your staff from these burdens so you and your staff are free to do more of what you love to do.

Workers’ Comp & Safety

Our on-the-ground safety team is 100% dedicated to ensuring the safety and compliance of your employees and your business. We’ll implement strategies and plans to prevent you from paying costly fines.

Employers Resource was the first to reduce workers’ compensation premiums with an incentive-based safety program.

Employee Benefits

Health care and employee benefits have become one of the primary challenges facing business owners today. Costs and regulations are ever-changing, and increasing! And employee benefits have become almost essential to recruiting and retaining the best talent out there.

If you want to remain competitive, benefits should be on the top of your list. We’ll exhaust every possibility and work every angle until we find the right benefits package for you and your employees. This is just one of the things that sets us apart from other PEOs.

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What is a PEO?

The ABC’s of PEO Business Protection

Administrative Burdens

Business Costs