Well, I am here in beautiful Miami Beach at the newly renovated Fountainebleau Hotel. It brings back memories of my childhood when I came to visit Miami with my family. Now I must admit that was over 40 years ago so things are quite different but not as different as the HR landscape. Although I wasn’t really paying attention to HR as a teenager, I am sure that there was no such thing as a Professional Employer Organization. What a concept and boy has it changed the way that HR is done in some businesses. Since I have already described what PEOs are in my September 4th blog post “PEOs: A Small Business Alternative That Empowers Profitability Over Paperwork”, I will not repeat it. But it is helpful to know the definition of a PEO. In the next few days, I will do my best to describe my experience here and try and give a feel for their breadth and value. You see, PEOs offer an entire menu of services bundled in or out of the many offerings that a larger organization with an internal HR department can offer. What is great about them is that they allow businesses to focus on what they do and know best; their businesses.
I became aware of PEOs about 9 years ago and Perspectives began providing EAP services as a part of the PEO menu. Currently we provide EAPs to a half dozen PEOs.
And now more than ever, EAPs can provide a very valuable piece of the PEO menu primarily because of the new Mental Health Parity Act that becomes effective in January, 2010. So stay tuned. Tomorrow I set up our booth.
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