Why Outsource?
According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, the average business owner/manager spends between 7 and 25% of his or her time handling employee-related paperwork. And that’s only a small part of it. Along with the massive amounts of paperwork, employer’s must deal with the added stress of increasing regulations such as; ADA, WARN, FMLA, IRCA, EPPA, COBRA, ERISA, MSHA, OSHA, ADEA, FUTA, EPA, EEO, LMRA, HIPAA, FLSA, IRC, FICA, NLRA, FCRA, and others. Sounds like alphabet soup?
What if you could refocus this time and spend it on the heart and soul of your business?
The opportunity to focus on strategic goals, long-term planning, or capturing additional market share in today’s tight, competitive market can be significant.
By outsourcing essential, time consuming, non-productive HR functions to Alkali and it’s partners, companies can reduce costs, improve service, focus on their core business, and gain access to expertise not available in-house.
And, according to the Outsourcing Institute, more and more companies, large and small, are outsourcing a variety of non-strategic functions to companies so that they can concentrate on more competitive opportunities.
By leveraging our expertise, you can devote your internal resources and capital funds to profit-driven activities without sacrificing important new technology, training and development, employee relations, quality benefits and more.
How Outsourcing Works for You
Years ago, large companies recognized the value of removing their Non-Productive Administrative Functions from the Operational Functions of their business by grouping them together into Staff Support Functions, i.e. Human Resources, Payroll, Employee Benefits, etc.
By doing so these large companies were able to create Operating Leverage-the point at which they could actually increase revenues without a proportionate increase in overhead.
How Alkali Works for You
Today, Alkali and it’s partners provide the same advantage to small and mid-sized companies by actually becoming their off-site Human Resource and Employee Benefits Support Functions.
Outsourcing these necessary yet Non-Productive Administrative tasks is essentially one of the only ways a small to medium sized business can create Operating Leverage. Creating Operating Leverage can have a significant impact on your bottom line by actually allowing you to increase your company’s profit margin.
1. Human Resources, Payroll, and Benefits Administration are eating up your time and budget.- 2. Health Benefits, Workers’ Compensation and Unemployment Compensation costs are through the roof.
- 3. You are losing the employees you want to other employers because you’re too small to offer the benefits you would need to keep them.
- 4. Dealing with employee benefit claims is difficult because it’s not what you know about and you are too small a fish in the insurance company’s pond.
- 5. You know there is a myriad of federal and state employment and benefits regulations that you must comply with, and you fear non-compliance could cost you plenty, but you’re unable to devote time to this.
- 6. You want to spin off a business unit and seek the best and quickest way it can establish its own HR, Payroll and Benefits Administration.
- 7. You’ve grown large enough to have recurring HR issues but you would like to forestall adding to headcount and overhead.
- 8. You’d like to hire an HR Manager that is a strategic partner, but such a person would not be attracted to the transaction and paperwork-heavy systems you have now.
- 9. You’d like to redeploy the HR manager you have now, to spend less time on tactical policy-oriented procedures, and more time on strategic people-oriented programs.
- 10. You recognize the importance of a state-of-the-art HRIS, but can’t afford servers, software, updates, and IT people. You know that, strategically, it makes sense to tie into one package.