Often, when we select someone to move up in our organization and take on a leadership role, we do so because they are right at their job. In a sales role, they may have been your top earner for the last few …

When we think about expanding our ranks, usually we think about achieving this goal by bringing in new talent from the outside and slotting them into whichever positions are open. But is it more beneficial to hire from within?  Below, we explore …

When it comes to benefits administration, it’s probably one of the last reason’s that you would consider a PEO, but it very quickly becomes one of the best and preferred perks of the partnership. You see, if you’ve been handling your HR …

When we think of outsourcing certain facets of our HR responsibilities to an outside firm, the first task that typically springs to mind for small business owners is payroll. For some companies, handing off these duties to a company that only focuses …

Sure, none of us like to think that it’s possible that an accident could occur at our place of work, but even the seemingly safest of workplaces can be the subject of a worker’s compensation claim. If you have ever had to …

When folks first start considering engaging with a professional employer organization (PEO), their first retort is that they are not the target audience because they already have someone in-house managing their HR functions. And even if they don’t, they may counter that they are …

The presidential election is fast approaching and the one thing that we can all agree on is… that politics should really never be discussed in the workplace (unless, of course, your workplace is the Senate or House floor, or the White House …

As is becoming a theme around here, we’re revisiting an oldie but a goodie blog post: Explaining the differences between a payroll company and a PEO. While all the old chestnuts we trotted out when we first covered the topic ring true, …

When it comes to interviewing, we know there are questions we absolutely can’t ask. For example, we are not allowed to ask a person’s age or religion, citizenship status, and certainly not their political affiliation, but there are a host of other question “categories” …

As part of our series on revisiting old blog posts, today we wanted to expand upon a previous posting where we detailed three strategies for reducing turnover among hourly wage workers. In this blog post, we highlighted the need to make their …