Case Study on Hiring CBR, an HR Outsourcing and
Employee Leasing Firm

One of the other pleasant surprises was the way that CBR, an HR Outsouring and Employee Leasing firm packaged our HR services. It made it easy to bid on jobs, as we knew our exact labor burden for each class code each month. This reduced my own time in bid preparation and helped ensure profitability for each job.

Today, my company has 47 employees and enjoys a great relationship with CBR as our HR Outsouring and Employee Leasing firm. Although CBR has serviced our company better than either of the previous national HR Outsouring and Employee Leasing firms, the PEO concept has served our business well as we have grown. I don’t worry about details, I just focus on what new markets and segments I can target as a fence builder in Arizona. Employee administration truly is the least of my worries each day.

Like many others, we started this company very small, in the backyard at my house. It was 1997, and there was only 5 of us; my wife, myself, my current CFO, David, and two crew members. Our initial draw to the PEO concept was that we wanted to provide good benefits to ourselves and our small group of employees. What we found was that there were other HR services included that ended up out-weighing our initial motive of providing employee benefits.

First of all, we appeared as a large corporation to the employees we began hiring subsequent to the startup. When interviewing, we had all the pieces in place so they viewed us as a real player in the market with competitive benefits and pay. We also found, with great relief, that CBR, the HR Outsouring and Employee Leasing firm was handling compliance issues we had no idea existed or were included in the HR service. We would have surely missed some of those items had we been on our own.

Roger, Phoenix Fence Builder

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