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How to Avoid Interview Bias with the Help of a PEO

In today's dynamic and diverse workplace landscape, fostering a just hiring process is crucial for b...

What's New in 2024- Employment Laws & Rules

Now that 2024 is officially in full swing, we want to help ensure you are set up for success and awa...

Payroll Outsourcing vs In-House Processing: A Financial Case for PEOs

As a business professional, you understand payroll holds a pivotal role in your organization’s succe...

Streamlining Payroll Processing: How a PEO Can Save You Time and Money

As a business owner, you likely know the struggles of developing a streamlined payroll process. A fu...

Why Hire a PEO for Small Businesses

If you are a small business owner, you know how hard it can be to manage all the different aspects o...

Leveraging a PEO for Brokers

Insurance brokers are always looking for ways to better serve their clients while increasing their o...

6 Reasons Why You Should Consider Switching to a New PEO

Using a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) helps deal with the administrative issues that a sm...

How To Save Your Company From Recession - What Can a PEO Do

A recession is referred to as a significant period of economic decline. Signs of such a recession in...

10 Reasons To Switch Your Company's HR, Benefits, Payroll, And Compliance To A PEO [2022]

In every business, achieving growth and productivity is compounded by activities like effective huma...

How to Save Your Company During a Recession in 2022

Wondering how to save your company during a recession? You're not alone. A recession spells doom and...

How and When Should You Switch PEOs [2022]

Small- and medium-sized businesses continue to face Human Resource challenges mainly due to the chan...

How to Combat Employee Burnout [2022]

While work-related stress isn't new, employee burnout resulting from chronic stress is on the rise. ...

Remote Company Culture: Avoiding Loneliness in Remote Work [2022]

For many professionals and businesses, remote work has opened up an entirely new realm of possibilit...

Summer Schedule Flexibility for Employees [2022]

With the arrival of hot weather, many businesses switch to flexible hours, also known as summer hour...

5 Ways to Improve Company Culture and Mental Health of Employees

Now more than ever, businesses are realizing the importance of creating a supportive work environmen...

6 Ways to Support Your Employees' Mental Health

Running a business is about more than just creating a product or providing a service. A business is ...

Benefits of Effective HR

Human resources, "HR," is an important department for businesses of every size; it has a dramatic im...

2022 Compliance Calendar- An HR Guide

Business owners face many challenges including employee retention and recruitment, competition withi...

What's New in 2022- State and Local Minimum Wage Guide

With each new year, brand new employment regulations go into effect and changes to existing laws hap...

What's New in 2022- Employment Laws & Rules- State by State

Now that 2022 is officially in full swing, we want to help ensure you are set up for success and awa...

Increase Your Benefits Buying Power With a PEO

As a small business owner, you are always thinking about how to get the most out of everything in yo...

10 Things To Look For In a PEO

As teams grow, it is easy to get lost down a rabbit hole when dealing with HR, payroll, benefits and...

PEO Pros and Cons

As a savvy business owner, you have likely heard about PEOs (Professional Employer Organizations) an...

ScalePEO: Helping Businesses Emerge Post-Lockdown

Co-Founder of ScalePEO, John Henry appeared on Portland's KOIN-TV to discuss how PEOs like Scale are...

PEOs and HR Software: What's the Difference?

Businesses of all sizes are continually looking for easier ways to run and grow. However, for startu...

FAQs for PEO Clients on Paycheck Protection Program Loans

Note: This blog was originally written and published on 4/20/20 with content furnished by NAPEO but ...

Breaking Down the Broker PEO Relationship

Health insurance is confusing. That’s why, when it comes to benefits, most business owners go to a b...

7 Ways to Know if Your Company Needs a PEO

With so much on their plate, it is not uncommon for business leaders to become so bogged down with t...

ScalePEO and Kaiser Permanente Partnership Supports Oregon Businesses

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Running a small or medium business is not for the faint of heart. In fact, it typi...

Don't Make These 5 Payroll Mistakes

Payroll is complicated. Accuracy and timeliness are of paramount importance and there is no room for...

Leading Solutions for HR, Payroll and Benefits Providers

If you ask an entrepreneur why they started their business in the first place how many do you think ...

Top Reasons to Use a PEO

Running your business is challenging enough without the added burden of payroll, benefits, HR admini...

How does a PEO Work?

I recently had a conversation with a business owner who mentioned he had talked with a friend of the...

New Employee Orientation Checklist

Have you ever wondered what was the actual catalyst for an event, catastrophic or benign? The REAL r...

How a Dedicated Implementation Specialist Helps

It's an amazing feeling, finding a new growth-partner to help you take your company to the next leve...

2020: Year in Review

Here we are, almost to the end of 2020-- can you believe it? The unprecedented nature of COVID-19 ce...

Compliance Requirements for a Remote Workforce

According to Gallup, the number of days employees are working remotely has doubled during the pandem...

Will Your Business Have a Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policy?

If a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available this year or in 2021, your business needs to consider whethe...

4 Key Terms From the ADA That Every Employer Should Know

If you hadn’t engaged with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) before the pandemic, you probab...

Employee Turnover During the Pandemic

As if a global pandemic isn't enough to handle, companies still have to continue to address employee...

Leading During a Pandemic

No one knows what the workplace is going to look like in three months. COVID-19 continues to spread....

Back to School FAQs for Employers

Here are some of our most frequently asked questions about leave under the Families First Coronaviru...

6 Tips for Managing Workplace Stress

We’re all supposed to feel stress from time to time. It’s the way the body responds to demands and d...

Return to Work Considerations for Employers

As some states relax their restrictions on non-essential businesses and daily activities it’s a grea...

Is Your Workplace a Safe Place to Speak Up?

Right now, organizations across the country are asking themselves what they can do to make their wor...

Benefit Spotlight: Long Term Disability Insurance

When a worldwide pandemic upends the financial security of people all over the globe, it's natural t...

Remember to Document, Document, Document

With all of the changes everyone has had to make over the past few months, not to mention the height...

FAQs on Short Term Disability

Short term disability insurance is an affordable way to protect your income when you are unable to w...

Federal Law Alert

New I-9 Policy Due to COVID-19

Supporting the Mental Health of Your Employees During COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on everyone’s mental health. People have experienced financia...

Washington Law Alert

Washington Governor Jay Inslee Creates Protection for High-Risk Employees During COVID-19 Washington...

Understanding the New CARES Act Options

The President recently signed legislation that includes important provisions to help you keep your e...

News Brief: Families First Coronavirus Response Act

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) was signed into law on March 18, 2020 and goes i...

FAQs for Employers Navigating COVID-19

Employers are facing an unprecedented challenge navigating COVID-19. As the virus spreads, it is gen...

How to Help Your Managers Communicate Better

Here’s a startling statistic: Nearly 70% of managers are uncomfortable communicating with their empl...

Effective Tactics for Dealing with Under Performing Employees

There are a lot of reasons why an employee or a team may be under performing, and sometimes it takes...

How to Boost Employee Morale

When an employee's feelings towards their workplace go sour it can negatively affect not just their ...

Federal Law Update

Reminder—New Minimum Salary for Exempt Employees Starting January 1, 2020, most employees who are cl...

2019 Year in Review

With 2019 drawing to a close we take a look back at some of the bright spots in our year. Below are ...

Year End To-Do List

The end of the year is a hectic time for everyone, but small business owners in particular feel the ...

Tis the Season for Seasonal Employees

With the holidays here and year-end quickly approaching, many businesses will be looking to ramp up ...

The Ins and Outs of Conducting Background Checks

Have you considered conducting background checks as part of your hiring process? The practice is fai...

7 Tips for Organizing an Office Donation Drive

Have you thought about conducting an office donation drive? It's a great way for businesses to help ...

Cyber Attacks Often Aimed at Small Businesses

It seems every month we are reading about another cyber attack at yet another large corporation. Bec...

Worried About Retention? Consider Doing This

According to Gallup, 51% of employees are looking for a new job, and 68% of employees believe they a...

DOL Releases Final Overtime Rule, Effective Jan. 1, 2020

The Department of Labor has announced the new minimum salary for certain exempt white collar employe...

7 Types of Interview Bias

Even the most seasoned of interviewers may fall victim to some common interviewing bias. Managers ne...

Managing Your Managers

As business owners, executives, and supervisors are all aware, managing employees is one of the hard...

How To Make Meetings With Remote Employees More Effective

According to the latest telecommuting, mobile work, and remote work statistics from GlobalWorkplaceA...

5 Awkward HR Questions Answered

Let's face it, dealing with HR matters can get downright awkward. Difficult questions and uncomforta...

The Truth About Hiring Your 50th Employee

About to hire your 50th employee? Congratulations! Reaching 50 employees is an important milestone f...

Fun Corporate Summer Events (Other Than Picnics)

We love a good picnic—really, who doesn’t? But if you’re looking to find something a little differen...

The Art of the Stay Interview

Previously we discussed the reasons for conducting exit interviews. When employees leave, the exit i...

Tips for Success Before You Jump Into Entrepreneurship

If you were to ask 10 different entrepreneurs why they took the leap into business ownership, you’d ...

The Three Ways HR Makes Employment More Profitable

HR covers a lot of territory—much of it cluttered with paperwork—but it really does have a precise b...

5 Simple Steps to More Efficient Meetings

Have you ever attended a meeting that left you feeling like you just wasted a bunch of time? If you'...

Working With Summer Scheduling Challenges

With summer underway employees have more scheduling challenges than usual. Vacations, summertime chi...

Four Keys to Improving Your Culture

There’s no easy formula to fixing all cultural problems because each workplace is unique. The rules ...

EEO-1 Reporting Requirements Finalized

The hotly contested issue of what exactly needs to be filed for EEO-1 reporting this year has been r...

How Conducting Exit Interviews Can Help Increase Retention

The exit interview is a conversation with a departing employee about their time at the company and t...

Energize Your Safety Training With These Easy Tips

National Safety Month is observed annually in June. However, workplace safety should be a top priori...

3 Tips for Effective Employee Coaching

The performance of your company is directly tied to the performance of your employees, so one of the...

Why Training Your Employees is Good for Retention

There’s an old joke about an executive who worries that training their employees will be a bad inves...

Learn Why Small Businesses are Sued and How to Prevent It

Running a business is risky. Despite your best intentions things happen and mistakes are made. Unfor...

10 Reasons to Immediately Review Your Employee Handbook

While your employee handbook should receive a regularly-scheduled review to ensure compliance with s...

How to Reduce Absenteeism

Taking time away from work is good for the health and morale of employees. When they can rest during...

5 Ways to Lower Labor Costs-- Without Cutting Staff

One of the most-asked questions by business owners everywhere is, “How can I lower my operating cost...

Why Employees Abandon Their Jobs and How to Prevent It

In December, The Washington Post reported on an odd, eyebrow-raising phenomenon in the working world...

5 Myths About Payroll We Need to Bust

When you’re laser-focused on growing a business, the external but essential aspects of operations li...

10 Ways to Express Your Gratitude to Your Employees

Do you love your team? Do you find yourself wondering how you’d ever succeed without them? We hope y...

How Employers Can Help Overcome Loneliness in the Workplace

Right now, in workplaces across the country, people are going about their jobs, seemingly content, b...

Picking the Best Payroll Schedule for Your Company

Before you can choose the best payroll schedule for your business you must first learn about the ava...

Top 4 Business Functions You Can Outsource

Now that you’ve solidified your 2019 goals and are working on making the new year a prosperous one, ...

3 Tips to Safeguard Your Interview Process

The first part of the year is a very popular time of year for recruiting and hiring. If you are one ...

5 New Year's Resolutions for Small Business Owners

Happy New Year! Now that the fun and festivities of the holiday season have passed, I'm willing to b...

2018: Year in Review

It has been an exciting year for us here at ScalePEO. There is so much that we are proud of and than...

Celebrating Responsibly at Holiday Parties

Employees appreciate recognition of their hard work over the year, and year-end holiday parties are ...

Employment Laws Every Growing Organization Should Know About

Periods of growth are particularly exciting for small and midsize businesses, but they also bring ne...

5 Ways Small Businesses Can Offer Competitive Benefits

At Scale we often hear small business owners (SBOs) ask how they are supposed to compete with the be...

HR Isn't Your Strength? Find a Trusted Partner

Choosing the Right Kind of Help Bear with me for a minute. Let’s say my right foot hurts. Like many ...

How to Measure The Real Cost of Employee Turnover

Employee turnover is expensive—more so than you might think. According to a recent survey by the Soc...

The Value of a Good Employee Onboarding Experience

Starting a new job is both exhilarating and nerve-wracking and what happens in those first days, and...

How Outsourcing HR Can Actually Help Your Current HR Manager

When deciding to outsource to a professional employer organization (PEO), it’s common for business o...

Is Your Payroll Putting You at Risk?

Getting paid—it’s one of your employees’ favorite things about work (if not the favorite) and it’s a...

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