If your business does not utilize a Human Resources Outsourcing (HRO) group like Achilles Group for HR services, you may have decided to hire a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) or Administrative Services Only (ASO) model. With a PEO, employers are able to bundle payroll, employee benefits, basic HR administration, and worker’s compensation together with one provider. However, your employees become employees of the PEO, and thus the PEO assumes limited liability for employment and compliance risks. Your company is forced to adopt the PEO’s policies and practices with little opportunity for customization. As your business grows and your needs become more complex, a PEO is not designed to handle the greater strategic HR challenges your organization will inevitably encounter. They may offer HR advice as part of their bundle, but in most cases, it is not their core competency. An ASO is an arrangement where an employer has “carved out” certain aspects of their PEO bundle, opting to obtain either benefits or payroll services through an alternate provider while still having the PEO handle basic employee administration. At Achilles Group, we are aware that most organizations have a need for multiple levels of HR skill sets that are not commonly found in one person. Finding that ideal mix of expertise or making the investment in multiple HR people can be overwhelming for most companies. Our Fractional HR concept provides our clients with the ideal mix of expertise without making the investment in multiple HR people. We also provide greater depth and breadth of HR knowledge and best practices than a PEO, ASO, and the ordinary HRO. With our Professionally Human approach, we get to know your culture and unique personality so we can tailor solutions to fit perfectly into your environment. We are not just a hotline service, answering your questions and handling your issues over the phone. We are people talking to people, providing proactive, reactive, strategic, and tactical assistance the moment you need it.
Achilles Group helped us with recruiting for a critical position on our finance team. Their team posted the position, sifted through all the applicants, and then screened them via phone interviews. The candidates they brought to us were all top notch–any one of them would have been a great fit! The person we hired ended up being one of the best decisions we ever made!
First Presbyterian
We are a small company and yet we don’t feel like a number. Large payroll companies have reached out to help us with HR, but I fear we would be just a number with them. We can call Achilles and they can be here on site in a couple of hours if needed. And because of that relationship, I feel like I am talking to someone who understands our company.
CEO, Slow Dough
Before we engaged with Achilles Group, our HR was more on the reactive side and we felt something was missing, and we didn’t know how to get there. We worried about many HR topics like compliance gaps, records retention, how to on-board new employees, and how to develop our leaders. Achilles not only guided in all those areas, but they spent a lot of time with us and provided the manpower needed to take that burden off our shoulders. It would have been very difficult to accomplish all this from a time standpoint without their team involved.
CEO, Engineered Air Balance
“We started out as a new company in 2020 that emerged from a group of experienced leaders and employees in the flight services industry. We knew we needed HR support through a real partner so we would not have to figure things out on our own, and we were not going to bring that function in-house. The Achilles team has been vitally important given the many dynamics to HR. It’s reassuring and gives us the confidence that our questions, issues, and problems will be resolved."
COO, Flight Pro Services
“Achilles has helped us navigate this exciting time by reducing some growing pains via thoughtful counsel, offering timely guidance as we hit different periods in our growth, and providing much needed insight into organizing our larger team.
Achilles has played a vital role in assisting us to keep the culture that has been such a key component of our success. As a bonus, we have been voted one of the Best Places to Work for four years running!”
Vice President, 2H Offshore, Inc.
Achilles Group was crucial to the transition off a PEO. Achilles Group engaged to help us roll off the PEO, and immediately it felt like a partnership. The process was absolutely seamless. The Achilles team not only assisted in streamlining HR compliance, but they focused on a strategic approach to ensure our policies and processes were more in line with our business’ vision and not just the PEO’s way. They advised how to cascade our team communications effectively and how to use benefits as a competitive advantage. Achilles Group is our ally and confidante in our business.
Director of HR, Dayrise Residential
One of our leaders created a toxic working culture. Our Achilles expert helped guide our company through the transition. If it weren’t for Achilles, we would have been stuck for years. Instead we experienced a lot of storm for about four months and it’s been a complete rainbow ever since.
CEO, Avanti Senior Living
I am very grateful with all the things Achilles helps us with. The people at Achilles Group are very professional. The team is good with communication. It’s so good to have someone to bounce things off, and we are looking forward to a long-lasting relationship. We like that we have one designated consultant to manage the interface with other Achilleans on various workstreams.
