Businesses who outsource HR are typically small to midsize firms with between 25 and 1,500 employees. These businesses view HR outsourcing as a strategic tool that relieves them of HR responsibilities and enables them to focus on what they do best. In addition to allowing you to concentrate on your core business activities, outsourcing provides some key benefits, including:

• Providing you with skilled professionals who are focused specifically on HR
• Helping you reduce and manage operating costs
• Improving employee relations

The term 'payroll' encompasses every employee of a company who receives a regular wage or other compensation. Some employees may be paid a steady salary while others are paid for hours worked or the number of items produced. A payroll specialist calculates all of these different payment methods and the appropriate paychecks are issued. Companies often use objective measuring tools such as timecards or timesheets completed by supervisors to determine the total amount of payroll due each pay period.

Setting up an effective payroll system is not especially difficult for trained accountants, but it can be very time consuming. Some smaller businesses rely on user-friendly computer software to set up a simple payroll system complete with check printers and file storage. Larger companies may assign trained accountants to handle payroll issues as part of their overall duties. But many businesses without the means to maintain their own payroll systems choose to farm out this task to outside specialists.

• Personnel Policies
• Records Retention Consultation
• Compensation/Benefits Analysis and Planning
• Employee Training and Orientations
• Succession Planning
• Strategic Planning
• Wage and Hour consultation
• FMLA/OFLA Consultation
• Employee Relations Consultation
• Team Building and Issue Resolution Facilitation