Reputation Capital Focuses on Growth with Help from HR Solutions

By Mickey Matran / February 3, 2015 / Uncategorized No Comments

Reputation Capital Media Services is a Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based content marketing agency with five employees, including its founder. Although it’s small, Rep Cap still has human resources duties to attend to — and they can take up a surprising amount of time and energy, says HR Director Dominique Rodgers. Being able to outsource routine HR tasks lets her — and Rep Cap’s founder, Mary Ellen Slayter — focus on important things that can’t be outsourced, such as strategy and delivering its core services to their clients.

Challenge No. 1: Minimizing Payroll Headaches

Even small companies can run into big challenges with payroll and benefits. There are myriad compliance issues that need to be addressed at the local, state and federal level, and few small business owners start off as experts in tax and employment law.

Rep Cap brought in some special challenges: As a de-centralized business with clients and employees scattered all across the country, they needed a partner who was comfortable and confident meeting those needs in multiple jurisdictions.

In a growing business, everyone is busy. Rodgers says that HR Solutions’ work on Rep Cap’s compliance and regulatory requirements is a big time-saver because she’s not worried about whether the company has all the right posters in the break room or having to make sure payroll is on time.
Challenge No. 2: Workforce Planning

At startups, growth doesn’t always follow a linear, predictable path. The Rep Cap team faced a major challenge in the past year when they had to adjust its staffing model, which included laying off a few employees.

HR Solutions provided support through this process, both to help ensure the company was following the letter of the law as well as treating people in a way consistent with its values.

“Because we’re such a small company, everything feels much more intimate and personal,” Rodgers says. “Having HR Solutions come to the office and sit with us while we did it brought some formality and structure to it.”
Challenge No. 3: Optimizing the Comp and Benefits Budget

If small businesses want to compete with larger enterprises for top talent, they’ll need to find a way to offer the kinds of compensation and benefits packages that larger firms do.

With HR Solutions’ help, Rep Cap was able to find an affordable way to provide their employees with fully paid health care and disability insurance, as well as offer dental and vision at better prices than employees could have found on their own. HR Solutions used its experience and network to find and evaluate a wide range of plans, saving Rep Cap’s time for more valuable pursuits.

“I can focus on the needs of this business — retaining our talent with competitive compensation and benefits strategies, and planning how we’re going to grow and manage that growth in the next few years,” Slayter says. “HR Solutions takes care of all of all those little things for me, and I can focus on the things that will help us grow.”

If you need help with HR administration so you can focus on running your business, contact us and let’s discuss how we can help.

HR Solutions is a human resources outsourcing firm based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. We eliminate human resources headaches for businesses with 10 to 1,000 employees by handling their payroll, employee benefits, regulatory compliance and other staffing needs. Contact us to learn how we can streamline your company’s human resources function to save money and reduce risk.

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