Small Businesses with PEOs Have Cause to Celebrate during National Small Business Week

Thousands of Americaís small businesses that work with professional employer organizations (PEOs) can match or surpass the success of many large businesses. Their PEOs provide a comprehensive package of HR services that gives them more time for productive activities, saves them money, improves their workersí lives, and provides a valuable group of employment experts. As a result, these businesses have every reason to celebrate with their PEOs during National Small Business Week, April 9-15.

During National Small Business Week, the PEO industry will present success stories of small businesses working with PEOs to advance their human resource strategies and workersí access to good employee benefits. The industryís leading trade association, the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations (NAPEO), will serve as the focal point for these success stories nationwide.

The PEO industry is one of the fastest growing, most successful industries today because it contributes to the growth of entrepreneurial small businesses in America, whether they are just starting, jump-starting or growing to a new level of performance. PEOs enable small businesses to cost-effectively outsource the management of human resources, employee benefits, payroll and workers’ compensation. As a result, the business owners focus on their core competencies to maintain and grow their bottom line.

The PEO story is woven in the nationís fabric, explained Milan P. Yager, executive vice president of NAPEO. ìAmericaís 25 million small businesses are the foundation of this nationís entrepreneurial success and the source of a livelihood for half our nationís workers. PEOs deliver the specialized HR skills and benefits paramount to workplaces in the 21st Century. They are a powerful part of the equation for small businessesí success,î he said.

All across the nation, executives of small businesses can cite their reasons for using PEO services. Sandra McKenzie and Ray Conta are two who recognized they needed a PEO as their companies grew. ìOur PEO takes the worry out of running the business,î said McKenzie, the president and COO of Affinity Home Hospice Services in Birmingham, Ala. ìI probably would need two employees to do what this PEO has done, and the savings are just unreal.î Conta, the vice president and co-founder of North Eastern Asset Recovery, Inc., New York, noted, ìAs our company grew we would have needed more HR staff. Instead we decided to work with a PEO. We also found that working with our PEO was good financially in the short term and long term.î

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