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If you are an owner of a mid- to small-sized business
and you seem to be spending more and more time on administrative and
human resource issues, it may be time to look into a Professional
Employer Organization (PEO).
One such PEO, Staff Leasing, is conveniently located
at the Atrium office park in Doral.
“We’re here so business owners can concentrate on
things they want to do, and, let’s face it, these time-consuming
tasks don’t add to productivity,” said Don Haught, sales manager
for Miami-Dade and Monroe counties.
Staff Leasing’s services are tailored to meet
specific business needs for its current client base of more than
10,700 small- to mid-sized enterprises nationwide. The company’s
services are based on six specific building blocks: recruit, select,
manage, develop, retain, and protect.
Staff Leasing can assist with recruitment through
screening résumés, interviewing, background screening, drug testing
and pre-employment skills testing.
The company also can help in managing payroll, which
includes handling all the paperwork, verifying time sheets,
calculating deductions, tracking leave time, printing and delivering
checks. Electronic payment is an available option that most clients
favor.
Staff development can be time consuming and costly.
“We offer courses for employees and management. Very
often smaller business owners don’t have the money or ability to do
this on their own”, Haught said.
Courses include Successful Customer Relationships,
Sexual Harassment Prevention and Performance Management. Staff Leasing
can help develop performance appraisals and job descriptions.
“We customize our programs to fit our clients’
needs,” Haught said.
By engaging a PEO, a small company can effectively
improve benefits for its employees.
“In essence we become co-employers and this allows a
small company to offer a bigger package to its employees and this
increases employee retention,” Haught said.
The PEO also assumes workers’ compensation and
unemployment liabilities and handles all claims. Staff Leasing spreads
the risks over a pool of more than 130,000 employees.
The first thing that Staff Leasing does is to analyze
the needs of a company and put together what it considers to be the
best staffing proposal, at no charge to the potential client.
“Nobody wants one size fits all. We don’t use
strong arm tactics, but believe in a professional approach,” Haught
said. “Most of our 80 percent growth has come from our current
clients, but we do like to help start-up companies and people who have
a dilemma. We don’t accept everybody.”
Staff Leasing is the largest professional employer
leasing company in the United States. It has 44 branch offices coast
to coast with 1,300 employees of its own. It prides itself on setting
trends, developing new services and tailoring solutions for its
clients. The company has invested more than $25 million in personnel,
training and computer systems in an effort to be on the cutting edge
of the industry.
The Doral office, located at 3900 NW 79 Ave., Suite
455, has a fully bilingual staff of 25, which does everything from
sales to client services.
“It’s a great concept. It frees up a business
owner. Everybody is different and everyone’s needs are different
especially here in the fast paced multi-cultural mix of Miami. I
normally ask potential clients what they would do if resources were no
problem, and inevitably they mention all of the services we offer,”
Haught said.
For more information, call Don Haught at 305-471-9899,
or visit the Web site at <www.staff-leasing.com>.
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