Talk:Professional employer organization/Archives/2011

Industry Links
Not sure why NAPEO has been tagged as a spammer in the earlier discussion. They are the national organization for PEOs and an authoritative source (and no, I do NOT work for them). I'd like to add the link back but don't want it to just get removed again. Sonria 00:32, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Discuss links here
Editors regularly clean out undiscussed links from this article. Please discuss here if you want a link not to be cleaned out regularly. (You can help!)

I've added an external link to www.advantec-hr.com as we are a PEO and our article explains the benefits of using Advantec's PEO offering...Damon Shields, Webmaster, Advantec-Tampa, FL

External links, again
I've removed the following external links per WP:EL. --SueHay 18:00, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * National Association of Professional Employer Organizations
 * Management2000
 * Florida Employee Leasing
 * Administaff, Inc
 * EMPO Corporation Your resource for PEO Services
 * PEO and Professional Employer Organization Resource
 * HR Outsourcing, Inc.

Currently researching
I'm researching this article. Please don't make it go away before I have a chance to do something with it. Thanks! BWatkins 02:14, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
 * If I send it to AfD, that will give you a week to fix it up. Would you like me to do that, to give you a week to fix it up? --SueHay 03:06, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Frankly, I don't see the urgency here. One week? This has been AfD before and voted to be kept. My preference is that it just be left alone for now. I do plan to work on it this weekend, though. BWatkins 13:50, 14 June 2007 (UTC)


 * If I may gently add my voice to BWatkins, I would also appreciate more time. Most of the individuals who know beans about contingent workforce management are people who work fulltime or overtime in the industry. Those with an academic background with an inclination to volunteer research and writing for Wikipedia represent a very small club. While I would be pleased to assist with making these articles more substantial, and may be able to prod some other knowledgeable individuals to join with the effort, having a one week deadline is frustrating. ContingentWorkforceSpace 15:37, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Proposed outline
My draft is beginning to take shape and I wanted to share the proposed outline here as an update.


 * Business model - brief description of how a PEO makes money, and its value proposition for the client
 * Early history - Employee leasing develops in the late 1970's and 1980's.
 * Abuses - types of fraud and evasion of federal worker protections in which PEOs were implicated
 * Regulating the PEO industry - efforts of U.S. states, plus the industry's own initiatives
 * Current Issues - SUTA dumping
 * Variations - Administrative Services Organizations (ASO), Umbrella companies in the UK, pass-thru agencies in the U.S., and financial intermediaries (home healthcare).
 * References
 * External links - The only link I plan to add is NAPEO. Even though they promote PEOs, as a trade industry association I think it's a valid use of this section.

Comments are welcome. BWatkins 04:39, 20 June 2007 (UTC)


 * New article moved into place. BWatkins 01:18, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Alternative Employee Leasing (AEL)
I removed the following added text because it was unsourced. Please provide a source for the term and its differences.

Another staffing arrangement called Alternative Employee Leasing (AEL)provides an opportunity for companies to lease specific employees to fill vacant positions. Unlike the services provided by PEO companies, AEL companies do not take over the client company's employees. Instead, the AEL company provides its employee to fill the vacant position. The leased employee works directly under the supervision of the client company, but he or she is the legal employee of the AEL company. As a result, the AEL company bears all the overhead costs associated with the leased employee (such as employee benefits, payroll taxes, risks associated with workers compensation, etc.); the leased employee usually delivers the services through alternative (in addition to the traditional) cost-effective methods. As a result of this, AEL tends to be more cost effective than temporary staffing or outsourcing. There are no placement fees for leased employees and their method of delivery are so efficient and cost effective that the AEL company can afford to charge low fixed monthly fee for the employee's services. For instance, a company that has a vacancy for an Accounts Payable Clerk would contact an AEL company and sign a short term agreement to lease a qualified clerk to perform the job for a low fixed fee monthly.

The concept of Alternative Employee Leasing is realatively new, but it has been gaining more and more followers (especially among non-profits and small to mid-sized businesses) over outsourcing, co-sourcing, temporary staffing, etc., because many see it as a very cost effective and flexible choice. BWatkins (talk) 18:13, 10 October 2008 (UTC)