Is outsourcing right for your company?

Connie Laughlin

Business owners globally are outsourcing countless services. Is outsourcing right for your company?
Companies tend to fail in the first five years due to a poor business plan or too much time spent going in different directions and not enough attention to customers and growth strategies.
For companies that have been around awhile, it may be time for growth. If that’s the case, you need to revisit your existing business plan, and ask if outsourcing is a viable option to give you a leg up on your journey.
Creative leaders are leveraging new strategies looking for market share. Outsourcing takes away burdens of risk that you may not even realize yet.
All companies must focus on their core and what fills their coffers.
It’s a constant battle to produce a superior service or product with efficiency, at times operating on a shoestring budget. Don’t slip down the ladder of success by losing your grip on your business.
Employees are instrumental to realizing the company vision. Utilizing your staff to its maximum potential can take you where you want to go.
Unique HR is a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) licensed by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation providing client companies with payroll, Worker’s Compensation, employment claims management, safety training, and an entire host of human resource department duties.
New studies indicate the growth of outsourcing HR services will exceed $80 billion worldwide by 2009. ROI isn’t much of an issue when you have an enhanced freedom to focus on core activities. 
A sharp PEO will keep you out of the legal arena and in the winner’s circle. Growing concerns such as workplace violence need to have the same attention as sexual harassment or discrimination. As our population ages, we face new challenges in the days ahead, and along with increased computer usage comes more legal risks.
Do you stay abreast of the ever-changing landscape of federal, state and local tax laws and employee regulations posing unforeseen threats to your business?
Our degrees of education, years of experience, and cream of the crop credentials quantify our value in the workplace. We are not the largest Professional Employer Organization in the country, which ensures you easy access to our knowledgeable staff.
To hand over the outsourcing of all HR duties can be a leap of faith.
Unique Staffing is in full compliance with the Certification Institute's workers' compensation risk management best practices.
Another of our multiple certifications is through an industry group called ESAC. We are one of the few PEO’s nationwide that have successfully been certified by this group. Employer Services Assurance Corporation (ESAC) certification involves an outside auditing group evaluating our business quarterly, assuring our clients of our ethical practices, demonstrated financial stability, and documented regulatory-compliant operations. In addition, this certification gives our clients a $11,000,000 surety bond for their peace of mind. It provides insurance much like FDIC.
Unique provides business owners with a staff of two to hundreds with innumerable Human Resource services. Payroll is delivered as promised, accurate and on time. New paperless payroll and user-friendly online payroll reporting defines us a cutting-edge company.
We are very conscientious about keeping our Worker’s Compensation insurance rates low and our clientele pay as they go (no huge WC premiums or audits). The time it takes to review policies searching for the lowest premiums eats away at your level of productivity. Or worse yet, are you going “bare” – without Worker’s Compensation insurance? One significant claim could be devastating.
We offer a wide variety of benefits to our client companies. As health care interest continues to grow, so does the level of complexity involved in benefits administration. If business owners want to offer a health insurance policy, life insurance, or other health related plans, we provide extremely well priced plans, thus allowing our client companies to offer a benefits package rivaling that of any Fortune 500 company. 
It doesn’t make sense to outsource services separately, it makes sense to outsource all services from one reputable, competitively priced company? At the present time 70-85% of all business owners are outsourcing one human resource service or another.