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Thursday May 28, 2020
An In-Depth Look with PEOs
Thursday May 28, 2020
Thursday May 28, 2020
Remember when you used to thumb through actual yellow and white pages of a phonebook to find people and services? In this episode, Toby Mathis of Anderson Advisors talks to Fred Lovingier, District Manager for Insperity, a professional employer organization (PEO). Fred has more than 15 years of management, marketing, and sales experience.
Highlights/Topics:
- What is a PEO? Outsourcing firm that provides services to small- and medium-sized businesses
- Why work with Insperity? Buying power and outsourcing
- What are the two main reasons why you should consider a PEO? Stabilize high volatility in healthcare costs and employee liability
- What are business owners’ top concerns? Don’t want to deal with other people
- Does Insperity offer employees access to a group health plan at the same price as other big companies? Yes, just like Walmart, Coca-Cola, and UnitedHealthcare
- What about workers’ comp benefits? Workers’ comp is based on a safety rating or mod number addressed as so much per hundred of payroll
- What’s Insperity’s rule of thumb? Vetted company that becomes a client, automatically reduces its current workers’ comp 10%; dangerous fields costs more money
- Whenever a PEO charges or consumes savings, what happens? Buying power is used to create offsets that help make the cost of doing business tolerable
- What if business owners carry health insurance? Most business people know that they’ll get a new rate, typically higher, every year
- What’s typical misconceptions about who’s liable? It's almost impossible to get a group plan these days; but you can go in combination with a group
- Can people be fired or released? Yes, but they may maintain direction and control of their company and receive onboarding/offboarding assistance
- What's the magic number or sweet spot for a PEO? Groups between five and 5,000
- How much does it cost? Typically, it’s less than the cost of hiring somebody, but the quality is significantly higher
- What is Insperity’s vision and mission? Give people the support and tools they need to grow and help businesses succeed for communities to prosper
- How long do Insperity’s clients stay? On average, clients stay 6.8 years, which represents an 80–85% renewal rate each year
Resources
Fred Simonds’s Office: 10845 Griffith Peak Dr., Suite 500, Las Vegas, NV 89135
Fred Simonds’s Phone: 702-470-1948
Fred Simonds’s Mobile Phone: 702-203-0063
Fred Simonds’s Fax: 866-422-1927
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