The cost of employee management leasing is not a one-size-fits-all value. The price point of this PEO service depends on the number of employees who work for you, the industry you work in, and the nature of your business. Also known as co-employment, employee management leasing can provide businesses like yours with a comprehensive solution …
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What Should I Look for in a PEO and Employee Leasing?
Posted On: 07/28/2022 | Categorized as:If you are looking for help but don’t want to shoulder the extra work of locating, attracting, and hiring the best talent, an employee leasing company can provide you with the help you need quickly. If you want to retain the ability to choose your employees and keep them for a longer period of time, …
How Do Brokers Find the Right PEO for Your Business?
Posted On: 07/01/2022 | Categorized as:The latest statistics from NAPEO (the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations) show that roughly 15% of all employers with between 10 and 99 employees use PEOs to meet their human resources and accounting needs. This represents more than 175,000 companies and businesses. But when choosing the right PEO, it is often necessary to work …
Who Is Responsible for State Unemployment Taxes?
Posted On: 09/09/2020 | Categorized as:As an employer, you are responsible for paying state unemployment taxes, or SUTA, in the United States. However, if you feel like you do not have the time to deal with taxes, you should not ignore them. You can incur fines and other penalties if you do not pay your taxes on time. This is …
How Do Employees Benefit from a PEO Arrangement?
Posted On: 09/09/2020 | Categorized as:When you are overworked, your business suffers. It’s that simple. When your business suffers, so too do your employees. When you find it difficult or impossible to keep up with your business’ HR and accounting tasks, this can lead to mistakes. When those mistakes are in your employees’ paychecks, or when no one is available …
Who Is Responsible for Employment Taxes?
Posted On: 09/09/2020 | Categorized as:If you are interested in hiring a PEO to help your business, you may be wondering who would be responsible for paying employment taxes. Is it still you, or is it the PEO? Per the IRS, a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) is what they consider a “third-party payer.” As such, a PEO can share in …
What Is the PEO Business Model?
Posted On: 09/09/2020 | Categorized as:A PEO, or Professional Employer Organization, is a third-party source that keeps track of all your HR-related matters so you don’t have to. Then, you have more time to handle what’s really important: the needs of your business. But, you may be wondering, how does a PEO benefit from this? Do you pay them one …
What Does Co-Employment Mean?
Posted On: 09/09/2020 | Categorized as:The idea of “co-employment” is that a business forms an arrangement with a PEO wherein the employer remains in charge of his employees’ day-to-day activities. Meanwhile, the PEO handles HR responsibilities. Put another way — you’re still the boss over your employees. It’s still up to you to make sure they’re doing their jobs correctly …
Can Employers Regulate Workplace Romance?
Posted On: 04/30/2020 | Categorized as:The topic of workplace romance can be controversial. Employees may not intend to become romantically interested in one another, but working together for a long period of time may result in such a relationship. On the other hand, employers may worry about potential negative consequences of workplace romance, including sexual harassment lawsuits, fallout in morale …
Does Your Company’s HR Department Need a Policies and Procedures Manual?
Posted On: 04/29/2020 | Categorized as:Your company runs on unique rules that guide the actions of employees. A policies and procedures manual provides a written record of these guidelines and offers significant benefits to your business. It is, therefore, very important that you have a well-constructed policies and procedures manual from your human resources (HR) department. Setting up a policies …
What Should a Staff Handbook for New Employees Include?
Posted On: 04/28/2020 | Categorized as:Part of having a successful business is hiring the right people. Coupled with that, however, is the need to have a seamless onboarding process complete with staff handbooks for new employees. In this way, new hires can understand the culture of the company, their own obligations, policies in the working environment, and the way they …
Do Company Sexual Harassment Policies Need Updating in the #MeToo Era?
Posted On: 04/28/2020 | Categorized as:It seems like every time you turn around, there’s another story of a high-profile individual in entertainment, politics, or business who has been accused of engaging in sexual harassment, fondling, groping, or worse. Many of these high-profile people have been forced to resign, or are being sued by their accusers. In light of all of …
How Can a New Small Business Afford to Give Employees Competitive Benefits?
Posted On: 04/28/2020 | Categorized as:Starting a small business brings with it a number of challenges. One of these trials can be setting aside enough of a budget to provide competitive benefits to your employees. Understanding how to create an impressive benefits package and learning about your options to secure benefits at a reasonable price can help you figure out …
What is ASO?
Posted On: 04/28/2020 | Categorized as:An ASO provides administrative services as they relate to an employer’s responsibilities regarding its employees. NetPEO offers nationwide Administrative Services Organization (ASO) to businesses across the United States. ASO services can best be described as a truly outsourced Payroll and HR department for your business that utilizes your company’s tax id numbers unlike with the …
What Are Some Hiring Best Practices?
Posted On: 04/07/2020 | Categorized as:When you have a growing business, you need to be ready to hire new employees to meet your changing needs. You can reduce the stress throughout the hiring practice by having a clear strategy in place before you need a new employee. Below are some of the best practices when it’s time for your business …
How Can a PEO Assist with Employee Training?
Posted On: 08/05/2019 | Categorized as:As a small business owner, there are many tasks where you feel that you could use an extra set of hands. If you’re struggling with HR-related functions, a professional employer organization (PEO) may be able to simplify your life and let you focus on running your business. Among the many services they can provide, the …
What Is the Difference Between Co-Employment Vs. Employee Leasing?
Posted On: 03/04/2019 | Categorized as:NetPEO is a brokerage service with a nationwide network of professional employer organizations (PEOs). By partnering with a PEO in our network, business owners can receive services for human resources needs rather than hiring an expensive full-time staff. The usual arrangement through which this is accomplished is known as co-employment, which is different from employee …
What Can I Do if I’m Having Problems With a Professional Employer Organization?
Posted On: 02/18/2019 | Categorized as:Outsourcing a company’s human resources needs to a PEO (professional employer organization) like the ones in NetPEO’s nationwide network is the wave of the future. The National Association of Professional Employer Organizations estimates that 175,000 small-to-mid-sized companies across the U.S. use PEOs every year, and that number is growing steadily. With an increased use of …
Who Is The Employer Of Record With Co-Employment?
Posted On: 02/01/2019 | Categorized as:In the modern business world, the use of PEOs (or professional employer organizations) is becoming much more common. PEOs like the ones in NetPEO’s nationwide network can provide many human resources and accounting services for a fraction of the cost of a permanent, in-house staff. In order to work with a PEO, though, a client …
Do Owners Lose Control of Their Business With Co-Employment?
Posted On: 11/30/2018 | Categorized as:At NetPEO, we operate as a PEO (or Professional Employer Organization) brokerage service to connect companies in need with human resources outsourcing options through our nationwide network of partner PEOs. When working with a PEO, business owners sign a co-employment agreement with that PEO in order to allow the PEO to perform services like payroll …
With Co-Employment, Will Your Company Payroll Checks Change?
Posted On: 11/29/2018 | Categorized as:If there is one major worry that business owners have about the co-employment relationship, it is that the agreement will somehow strip them of certain rights and privileges they have as owners of their company. For example, some owners worry that the nature of their company’s payroll checks will change. Far from the fear of …
Do You Still ‘Employ’ Your Employees With Co-Employment?
Posted On: 09/11/2018 | Categorized as:Co-employment is the business arrangement that allows PEOs, or Professional Employer Organizations, to work with companies and provide services to employees. Though there are few risks or liabilities that accompany co-employment, some employers may be afraid of the term. However, you still employ your employees when you have signed a co-employment agreement. How Co-Employment Works …
How Does Co-Employment Help Companies Provide Employee Benefits?
Posted On: 07/23/2018 | Categorized as:By entering into a co-employment arrangement with a PEO, business owners will have access to a wider range of benefits for their employees. This is because a PEO often serves many different businesses, with the pool of employees that are paying into those benefits encompassing all of those disparate companies. In other words, PEOs have …
Why Is Co-Employment Helpful In Outsourcing Your Company’s HR?
Posted On: 06/20/2018 | Categorized as:The concept of co-employment may be slightly confusing for business owners who are used to providing all of their employees’ benefits on their own. Essentially, co-employment is just a fancy way of saying that your business is going to team up with a PEO to provide better, more efficient services to your employees. Using co-employment …
What Is Co-Employment & How Does It Work?
Posted On: 04/04/2018 | Categorized as:Co-Employment (or employee leasing) is a relationship that is formed by either using a staffing agency or a Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs). The term is used to express the relationship between a business, its employees and the PEO or staffing agency. With a co-employment relationship there will be two entities that share employment and legal responsibilities …