The Smarter HR Strategy Every Business Should Consider
As a business leader, you wear many hats. From overseeing operations and finance to managing employees and growth, your responsibilities span the entire company. With limited time and resources, it’s tough to excel in every area critical to success.
That’s why more and more organizations turn to outsourcing certain functions, like human resources, to expert teams. Rather than stretching your in-house staff thin,
outsourced HR provides the strategic guidance and support your business needs.
Here we will discuss the ins and outs of your decision and how the benefits usually outweigh any concerns. Keep reading to learn why outsourcing HR can transform how you manage your most valuable assets - your people. Discover how the right partner provides the specialized expertise and solutions modern HR demands.
The Evolving Role of HR
Human resources used to be confined to administrative tasks like payroll, benefits management, and basic policies. But the function has expanded and elevated over the years.
Today’s HR focuses on complex, strategic objectives:
- Recruiting and retaining top talent
- Developing employees and leadership
- Promoting engagement, diversity and inclusion
- Ensuring legal and regulatory compliance
- Cultivating company culture and performance
This strategic role is critical as competition for skilled workers heats up across industries. Your people ultimately determine the success or failure of your business.
But for many companies, the costs and effort to build robust in-house HR can be prohibitive. Outsourcing provides access to elevated capabilities you likely can’t achieve alone.
The Benefits of Outsourced HR
Partnering with an outsourced HR provider offers many advantages:
**1. Get Expertise You Normally Couldn’t Afford**
Specialized HR firms employ teams of licensed professionals with decades of combined experience. For the fraction of the cost of a full-time resource, you gain comprehensive capabilities:
- Certified HR experts, complaint investigators, compensation specialists
- Knowledge of ever-changing laws and compliance issues
- Training in HR technology and automation
This level of expertise is difficult to justify for most small and mid-sized companies. Outsourcing gives you the same sophistication and guidance larger corporations enjoy.
**2. Focus Your Staff on Core Business Priorities**
You only have so much time and talent internally. Outsourcing HR through the right firm lifts those burdens from your team’s shoulders.
Your staff can devote their energy towards mission-critical initiatives that drive growth and innovation. As HR needs evolve, your flexible HR partner adapts through their specialized resources.
**3. Access Technology, Tools, and Infrastructure**
Leading HR providers utilize advanced software, analytics, and systems scaled for a portfolio of clients. This technology targets every process:
- Applicant tracking and onboarding
- Payroll, benefits, and compliance
- Performance management and goal tracking
- Learning management and career development
- Employee relations case management
- Surveys, culture diagnostics, and feedback
Rather than absorbing the costs of these systems yourself, outsourcing delivers the infrastructure, security, implementation, and support.
**4. Reduce Costs and Control Risks**
While outsourcing provides more capabilities, it often costs significantly less than hiring specialists in-house. You pay only for the services you need.
A trusted partner applies their expertise to control costs and risks in areas like:
- Healthcare, workers compensation, employment practices liability insurance
- Compliance fines, lawsuits, and audits
- Inconsistent policies, turnover, absenteeism
- Ineffective recruiting, onboarding, and culture
Their specialized teams and technology deliver economies of scale you can’t replicate alone.
**5. Drive Strategic Objectives**
An outsourced HR partner aligns their services with your specific business goals. This ensures HR efforts tie directly to your strategic vision including:
- Mapping workforce, talent, and leadership needs
- Improving diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Facilitating change management and growth
- Optimizing organization structure
- Developing high potential employees
- Promoting wellness, safety, and engagement
Rather than just tactical execution, outsourced HR becomes a driver of long-term success.
**Find the Right HR Partner**
Not all HR firms are created equal. You need a partner that embodies the following:
- Years of experience across a range of industries and clients
- Licenses and certifications for their HR practitioners
- Excellent client satisfaction and retention
- Comprehensive technology and analytics capabilities
- Custom solutions tailored to your needs and culture
- Local presence with national resources and reach
A trusted advisor provides guidance shaped specifically for you. They act as an extension of your leadership team to uplift your people operations.
Outsourcing provides the expertise, tools, and infrastructure to cultivate a high-achieving workforce that drives your mission forward. Partnering with the right provider gives you capabilities and capacities far beyond what you could build in-house.
**Focus on Growth, Not HR Burdens**
For an essential business leader, outsourced HR lifts the burdens from your shoulders so you can focus on what matters most. Partnering with a trusted, experienced provider gives you the strategic capabilities your business demands.
Rather than getting bogged down running payroll or tracking policies, devote your limited time and resources towards growth, innovation, and execution. Align HR efforts directly with your long-term vision using elevated expertise you likely can’t justify hiring yourself.
Outsourcing gives you the sophisticated solutions workers now expect in a tight labor market. With a true partner, you develop the high-achieving, engaged team needed to excel today and into the future.
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Stop wasting money and resources on an overloaded, underperforming internal team. My Virtual HR Director provides the expertise of certified HR pros for a fraction of the cost. Set up a free consultation with one of our specialists to discuss how outsourced solutions can reduce your costs while transforming your HR capabilities. We are expert partners who get to know your business inside and out. Contact us now to book your appointment and start saving both time and money through elevated HR.
Joseph Campagna, SPHR, SHRM-SCP is president and owner of My Virtual HR Director, a human resources outsourcing company serving small and medium sized businesses nationwide. My Virtual HR Director provides an executive level HR advisor to companies that can’t afford or can’t justify hiring a fulltime HR professional on staff.
With twenty years of experience dedicated to the HR profession, Mr. Campagna has honed his skills as an expert in compliance, talent management and employee relations. Bringing human capital management experience from start-ups, IT and biotechnology companies, employee leasing, and fortune 100 behemoths Mr. Campagna has filled his tool belt through generalist work, executive positions, and consulting opportunities with companies such as ADP, Merrill Lynch, and Johnson & Johnson. As Vice President of HR for biotech company Hemo Concepts, as well as the head of HR for the global IT solutions company, the Galaxy Group, Mr. Campagna created rich and successful organizational development and employee engagement programs.
Having worked with a diverse group of companies and clients in a broad spectrum of industries and environments, he brings a unique HR philosophy to every organization he works with. “HR is not the picnic department,” he says “but instead bears the full responsibility and the unlimited potential for a highly productive and efficient workforce. If HR systems are successful, the organization’s revenue should be increased.” From mergers and acquisitions, to IPO’s, to new product development, to divestiture Mr. Campagna has a true business background to support his HR Architecture.
Mr. Campagna is certified as a senior professional through both the Human Resources Certification Institute (HRCI) and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). The HRCI designation of Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) is an experienced-based examination certification. The SHRM certification is a competency based examination certification. Each is a premier designation in the world of HR and recognized by the Society for Human Resource Management of which Joe is a national member and former chapter president.
Mr. Campagna brings decades of helping small and medium sized businesses create HR structures such as employee handbooks, performance systems, talent management, training programs, and employee engagement. He knows how to deliver business results through HR aligned objectives.
Nearly 30 years of expertise and HR executive authority combined with a group health insurance license and certifications from the Society for Human Resource management and the Human Resources Certification Institute have given Joseph Campagna the guru status that has earned him leadership roles, board of director roles, and speaking engagements related to human resources.