How to Create Vendor Partnerships Based on Trust

Without communication and transparency, your vendor partnerships may come toppling down.

Benefits Outsourcing Is Up, Driven by

Costs, Compliance

Corporate benefits departments are outsourcing more administrative functions as they seek to tap into specialized expertise around compliance issues.

Survey: Employers Likely to Outsource ACA Reporting

Affordable Care Act (ACA) tracking and reporting requirements are presenting challenges to employers, leading many to consider an outsourced solution.

Zenefits-ADP Settlement Points to Changing Benefits

The recently resolved legal battle between business-outsourcing giant ADP and startup HR technology firm Zenefits points to a changing, more competitive market for benefits and payroll administration.

Startups Outsourcing HR: When, Why, What If?

By outsourcing and automating administrative services typically handled by hiring a dedicated HR staffer, startups can better deploy their human capital—up to a point.

Results-Oriented Outsourcing

Using outcome-based vendor pricing, companies pay vendors based on bottom-line business results, so HR can focus on performance over process.

Rethinking Brokers' Role

The idea of employers reducing or eliminating the benefits broker’s role in light of health care reform keeps brokers up at night.

Group Health Insurance Carrier Selection Questionnaire

When considering prospective carriers, ask each of them the same questions to obtain identical information. Here are general questions to assist in the selection process.

Chaplain Services, Employee Assistance Programs Compete for Employer Market

Providers of chaplain-based services say their programs are more personal and flexible than traditional employee assistance programs (EAPs)—something EAP groups challenge as the two compete for contracts.

Amid Consolidation, Clients Grow Selective

HR executives may have more leverage when purchasing outsourcing services due to consolidation of multi-process vendors.

Reduce Risks of Benefits Plan Contracting

Benefits vendor contracts can give rise to legal pitfalls from participant lawsuits to regulatory penalties. To limit liability in vendor agreements, get contractual protections in writing.

Outsourcing the HR Function

An overview of the types of HR outsourcing arrangements, and potential benefits, special concerns and possible drawbacks of such arrangements.

The Buying Services Game

Ever wonder about the net effect of outsourcing human resource services? Get the facts before you make a move.

Keep Core Competencies, Offload Administration

Admin work is the top candidate for outsourcing, as it takes up such a large portion of the HR professional’s time.

Benefits Admininstration:

Benefits Outsourcing: Focus on the Employee Experience

When outsourcing benefits administration, focus on the employee end-user's experience when structuring the new vendor relationship.

Health Care:

Health Care Reform Accelerates Benefits Outsourcing

Benefits administration outsourcing, fueled in recent years by employers needing help to comply with health care reform measures, is growing rapidly.

Retirement Plans:

Outsourcing Relief for Sales-Comp Headaches

Pharma firms discovered that when done right, outsourcing the administration of incentive pay for sales reps can improve efficiency and control costs.

Compensation Outsourcing: A Growing Trend

Three basic areas of compensation can be outsourced—employee, sales and executive—and each presents its own challenges.

Compensation Administration Outsourcing

Compensation administration is among the more specialized functions in most organizations, and outsourcing solutions are starting to emerge.

'Co-Sourcing' Compensation: Johnson & Johnson's Middle Path

Payroll:

Offshoring: Cost Savings Tied to Process Improvements

Companies can potentially increase by over half their cost savings from offshoring back-office functions—if they make process improvements part of their globalization initiatives.

Competitive Bidding:

Contract Negotiating:

Relationship Governance:

External Links:

Call Centers Come Home

Using home-based call center workers can offer employers significant financial and HR advantages over offshoring.

Shared Services Can Cut Process Costs, but Many Fail to See Gains

More companies are forming internal organizations to consolidate and support redundant functions, such as accounts payable, for disparate business units.

RPO Providers Make Push for Midmarket, Global Firms

The recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) industry continues to grow rapidly despite tepid hiring plans by many companies.

If the Shoe Fits: Outsourcing HRMS

Outsourcing an HR management system (HRMS) platform can save money and improve service.