Benefits Brokers Selecting sharedHR to Deliver Innovative, Compliant HR Solutions to Their Clients

Benefits brokers have discovered a new resource to keep them ahead in an increasingly competitive industry niche: sharedHR, the fast-growing supplier of Web-based services that provides easy-to-use, reliable administrative services to HR professionals. The brokers are adding sharedHR to the list of value-added products they provide to their roster of clients.

ìBusinesses are pressuring brokers to provide higher levels of serviceósuch as HR supportóat no increase in fees,î explains Paul Finkle, President and CEO of sharedHR. ìSo theyíre turning to sharedHR because weíre not only cost-efficient but reliable--and we donít require a lot of training to deploy. Using our service is also a great way for brokers to stay in touch with customers.î

Brokers agree. ìMany online products are databases that just store information. But sharedHR was created by HR professionals to support HR departments in all of the tasks they require,î says Keith McNeil, principle of McNeil Insurance Agency, Inc. in Novato, Calif. ìWhen we demonstrate sharedHRís many services to HR departments, the responses are very positive. The HR products departments are currently using often donít meet their needs, but until recently brokers have not been able to offer alternatives.î

Brent Babow, HR Director for MarketLive Inc., a Petaluma, Calif.-based Web design company serving the catalog, direct marketing, and retail industries, took advantage of sharedHR right away when offered by McNeilís agency. ìThe service has allowed us to take records scattered about on many different Excel spreadsheets and put them into one database,î says Babow. ìWe have been able to eliminate significant redundancy in our record-keeping.î

ìItís a good resource for businesses that donít have their own HR information systems,î adds Babow. He says MarketLive is preparing to launch an online portal for its 170 employees so they can access and process their own documents, such as change of address and tax withholding forms. The portal will help ease the routine paper handling on MarketLiveís HR department.

McNeil says heís been impressed with sharedHR because it offers a library of online forms and documents, checklists, guidelines, and best practices and procedures, all kept up to date and legally compliant. ìSharedHRís online employee handbook, kept legal compliant for multiple states, is an especially valuable feature,î says McNeil.

In fact, SharedHR confers closely with related professionals, including employment law firms, accounting firms, insurance brokers and others to ensure that its clients have access to the most current and tested practices and documents available, says McNeil. Because sharedHR is an application service provider (ASP), all documents and the employee handbook get updated automatically as employment laws and regulations change.

ìKnowing that every page in the library is compliant is a great relief, not to mention a great time-saver, for HR professionals,î says McNeil. ìIt sets sharedHR apart from the competition.î

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