Free PEO Advice...

PEOshop.com offers the following guidelines for selecting a PEO on your own:

1. Assess your workplace to determine your human resource and risk management needs.

    

2. Make sure the PEO is capable of meeting your goals. Meet or speak with the people who will be serving you.

    

3. Ask for client and professional references.

    

4. Check the firm's financial background, and ask for banking and credit references. Ask the PEO to demonstrate that payroll taxes and insurance premiums have been paid.

    

5. Check to see if the company is a member of NAPEO, the national trade association of the PEO industry. Click here to visit NAPEO's Directory of PEO Members.

    

6. Investigate the company's administrative and risk management service competence. What experience and depth does their internal staff have? Do any of the senior staff have professional training or designations?

    

7. Understand how the employee benefits are funded. Is the PEO fully insured or partially self-funded? Who is the third-party administrator (TPA) or carrier? Is their TPA or carrier authorized to do business in your state?

    

8. Understand how the employee benefits are tailored. Determine if they fit the needs of your employees.

    

9. Review the service agreement carefully. Are the respective parties' responsibilities and liabilities clearly laid out? What guarantees are provided? What provisions permit you or the PEO to cancel the terms of the contract?

    

10. Make sure that the company you are considering meets all state requirements.

Of course, you could just let us do all this for you....

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Professional Employer Organizations, also known as employee leasing companies.