"While paperwork reduction and time savings are important to running a successful business, a PEO is able to provide even more benefits. To help attract and retain employees, PEOs offer clients competitive advantages. By teaming with a PEO, small and mid-sized businesses can benefit from the PEO's negotiating power and volume discounts. Through a PEO, an employer can offer flexible benefit options that allow employees to have access to retirement savings plans, health-benefit programs and employee assistance programs at an affordable cost."

"Workers also have the assurance that their workplace is safe and they are treated fairly. Labor laws and safety regulations often cover workers employed by a PEO that would not have protected them when employed by a small business. Because a PEO has a combined work force of hundreds or thousands, its employees are protected by laws that usually do not apply to smaller work groups. "

PEOs take load off companies by filling human resources function

Tom Shehan

Special To Houston Business Journal