Shifting the day to day administrative tasks of running employment related activities, allows the business to focus more on revenue generating activities. PEOs also provide fractional usage of a specialist without paying their full time salary. These specialists can help effectively manage the growing requirements from government regulations and better manage risk associated with employment activities.
Co-employment is a key concept in the PEO industry. Simply put, companies and PEOs share the employment responsibilities for employees (Company = execution, PEO = administrative). This allows the PEO to aggregate all of its clients under the PEO’s FEIN to gain leverage when going to the market to purchase benefits and workers’ compensation. The PEO can also use scale to handle employment related issues.
How are PEOs different from other outsourcing organizations?
PEOs derive significant cost savings and efficiencies with the co-employment relationship. PEOs provide payroll to all of its client’s employees under a single Federal Employer ID number (FEIN) which provides the following benefits: