Are employee issues making you crazy?

We love the HR business, but we'll bet you don't. The people stuff can be enough to drive you over the edge, but you know as well as we do that the performance of your company is truly dependent on the performance of your people. Sadly, most small to mid-sized companies don't treat human resources as a discipline, despite the fact that employee issues can bury your ability to grow or worse, cause your business to fail.  There are tons of statistics to point to:

50% of businesses fail in the first 5 years. (Small Business Administration)

There might be a correlation with that 50% failure rate when you consider that 50% of your employees describe themselves as not engaged in their work and are looking for their next job opportunity. (Gallup Daily Employee Engagement poll)

Where do you go for help when employee issues are bogging you down and keeping you from growing your business?  We have people and HR solutions, custom tailored to your needs, culture, and business.  You don't need to do this alone.

You have to comply with Federal and State Labor & Employment Laws

As an employer, you're supposed to know everything about labor and employment compliance. That's pretty tough to do because it's hard to keep up with the laws when they change constantly. For a business, there is nothing that can suck the wind out of its sails (and drain its bank account) faster than a lawsuit.

90,000 cases are filed with the Equal Employees Opportunity Commission (EEOC) every year. Of these, about 40,000 are employer retaliation, 28,000 are race related, 25,000 are sexual harassment, and 18,000 are age-related. Most cases have multiple allegations. If successful, the fines and penalties can be anywhere from thousands of dollars to millions. Why end up being a statistic?  Ignorance of the law is not an excuse; it's a risk.

Not knowing how to handle difficult situations, or not having an updated Employee Handbook (or having no Employee Handbook) can put you on the wrong side of the law.

You've worked too hard to build a business to lose it over something that's easy to get help with.

Do get yourself some help, would you? It's as easy as giving us a call.

You Didn't Start a Business to Become an HR Director

You started your business to make a difference in the world. We get it, we did too. You're not big enough to need a full-time person or HR Department. You've had your accounting person or your office manager help you with all things HR, but they don't have a lot of experience and it makes you worry. Worse, you've been through a horrible employee ordeal which ended badly.

Great companies and great cultures aren't built by accident. Great employee practices are like the way a master chef prepares a complicated meal; the right ingredients need to be added in the right proportion at the right time, in order to create and maintain a highly engaged team and to keep you out of court.

And, that's the primary purpose of having a People People engaged with your company, to create great people programs and highly engaged teams.

This is What You'll Say About Us Too...

No Matter What HR Help You Need, We Do it All.

We're a full-service human resources company.

We offer everything related to human resources: we engage in leadership and employee development, employee relations, hiring, discipline and terminations, onboarding, file management, organizational forecasting, payroll processing, benefits administration, unemployment insurance management and claims, we create job descriptions, we conduct HR compliance diagnostics, we manage flex spending plans, we do HRA and HSA oversight and administration, and all things HR.

Just about any HR outsourcing company can offer these services. But the biggest value we offer is being a partner to you as you grow your business, grow your revenues, and grow your profitability by leveraging the power of your people.

What Can We Help With?

• Outsourced HR Department limiting employer liability
• HR management, HR compliance, HR consulting & support
• Employee handbooks (writing, updates & reviews)
• Search and recruitment based on solid cultural fit
• Employee discipline, employee terminations, separation agreements and "good goodbyes" including file documentation and exit interviews
• Leadership development, coaching and consulting
• Performance management & employee development aligning employee goals with business goals
• Personnel file secure storage and review
• New hire & onboarding process
• I-9 and E-Verify management
• Job description creation and FLSA classifications
• Payroll processing, tax administration oversight and benefits administration including FSA, HSA, HRA as well as insured benefit programs
• Group health, dental vision and ancillary benefit plans including retirement, negotiation, oversight and administration
• Unemployment insurance management & claims
• Personality profiling & engagement measurement systems
• Cultural roadmap development
• Personnel training
• Organizational development, organizational charts and growth forecasting
• Consiglieri to the entrepreneur
• ...and much more

"Grow Your People and Grow Your Business"

Growing a business is painful. Everyone thinks it’s so glamorous - those are the people who’ve never done it or had to figure out how to make the next payroll.

The biggest pain point for virtually all entrepreneurs is people. Can’t find the right ones, can’t keep the right ones, can’t get them to do what they need to, can’t get them to play nice. Sound familiar? Of course it does, you aren’t the only one out there with people problems. It can literally suck at your will to live. I started People People because I was truly sick and tired of being pigeonholed into life-draining HR compliance stuff when I knew that the people of a business are the true drivers.

You will grow your business if you know how to grow the right people in it. And that’s my life’s mission.

HR practiced the People People way will build your business and your profitability. We will create the people engine that runs your business towards the business results you crave. Investing in this people engine is the most important thing you can do. Hell yes, you have to worry about cash flow, and sales, and the million other things that it takes to be successful, but what have you invested in your people outside of paying them? Those suckers are the ones who are going to help you get there.

It’s our reason for being. Every time we use our proven systems and creativity to build a business and improve profitability and results - well, that’s how we get our kicks.

It’s the only reason People People is here.