What Is A PEO?

A professional employer organization (PEO) provides integrated services to effectively manage critical human resource responsibilities and employer risks for clients. A PEO provides a service under which an employer can outsource employee management tasks, such as employee benefits, payroll and workers’ compensation.

~Source: NAPEO, National Association of Professional Employer Organizations

Do I Need A PEO / HR Outsourcing?

Let’s start with this question: Are you more bogged down with transactional and administrative issues than you’d like to be and less strategically focused than you can afford to be?

Most businesses will answer that question with a resounding YES!

Here are some more questions:

• Is your business in compliance with ACA (The Affordable Care Act)?
• Do you know you need top-tier outsourced help but you are concerned whether you can actually afford it?
• Are you finding it difficult to retain and attract key qualified employees?
• Concerned with the legal liability around managing employee benefit plans, managing State and Federal Wage & Hour Compliance, Compliance with HR Laws or with 401k plan Safe Harbor provisions?
• Frustrated because the day-to-day is always taking precedence over the planning and strategy?
• Not able to run your business because of all of the daily transactions stealing your time?

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The Value Proposition for FIU:

A major Distinction in this FIU Alumni Association offering is that it is decidedly a B2B (business to business) channel versus a B2C (business to consumer) channel proposition.

The PEO Group will provide significant improvement to your business financially and operationally as a part of the FIU Alumni Association referral program.

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How the FIU/PEO Group relationship came about:

The FIU Alumni Association/The PEO Group partnership began as an idea when Kenneth Orr, Founder of The PEO Group and Alumni Lifetime Member, class of 1977 School of Hospitality & Tourism Management approached Duane Wiles, Associate Vice President, Alumni Relations & Executive Director of the FIU Alumni Association approximately 5 years ago with a way to establish a potential win-win solution for business owners that are Alumni/Supporters and friends of FIU, but also for the Alumni Association as well. This was a way to thank FIU for the role it had played in his life, as well as to help his alma mater further its goals as it moves forward with an eye toward future expansion needs and specific FIU Projects and goals.

Ken’s concept was conceived on the basis that a large percentage of FIU alumni are residing in the South Florida area and that many are in decision-making roles within their respective companies. Many of these organizations, outside of, and within the hospitality marketplace, presently utilize the services of Professional Employer Organizations (PEO).

The thinking was: might it not be a good idea for FIU to introduce a PEO of national stature, solid financials and a history of strong client-retention, to alumni and to business friends of the Alumni Association who may want to learn more which would benefit the business owner and the FIU Alumni Association at the same time.