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Are you getting the best deal on your PEO?
If you're currently in a Professional Employer Organization (PEO), you've probably wondered if you should have played the field a little more. PEOs are guilty of relying on the complexity of their set-up to obscure costs and keep you from being as well-informed a customer as you might for other services like an accountant or a software vendor.
But "difficult to tell" doesn't mean unknowable. Read on to find out how to do your due diligence with any PEO.
How we get the best deal with your current PEO
Most people would think I'm crazy because I'm writing a blog on getting the best deal with your current Professional Employer Organization (PEO) — it kind of goes against my business model.
Three Things PEOs Don't Want You to Know
PEOs are a business, too, and they need to make money. In our experience, PEOs are excellent about making sure the price you pay is fair and comes with a high level of value. Even so, there are three things that PEOs don’t want you to know.
Do you know if you are getting the best deal with your Professional Employer Organization?
There are two kinds of companies, ones that use a PEO and ones that do not. Every time I work with a company that uses a PEO, they all have their reasons for they do, but usually because it makes life easier, and they save money. When I meet a company, that doesn’t use a PEO it’s either because they have never heard of it, don’t understand it fully or have a misconceived notion of how it works.
