cityCURRENT | Human Capital Concepts – HR Solutions That Fit Your Business!

Host Jeremy C. Park talks with cityCURRENT partner, Harlan Schafir, CEO and Chief Visionary Officer of Human Capital Concepts, who highlights his company and the power of partnering with a Professional Employer Organization (PEO). During the interview, Harlan talks about how they help businesses simplify being an employer by sharing the responsibility of having employees, which means that HCC handles benefit plan administration, HR issues, payroll, compliance, 401k administration and the technology to support it all. HCC is one of the only 15% of PEOs that have committed the extra effort, reporting, and expense to meet the Certified Professional Employer Organization (CPEO) standards via the IRS. Harlan talks about these benefits to companies and nonprofits, along with some of the important HR trends and topics, including the hiring and retention of employees, remote workforces, and COVID work policies. He also highlights their philanthropic efforts and how his team gives back to support the communities in which they live, work and play.

Professional Employer Organizations (PEO) are a rapidly growing industry.
- Currently over 173,000 SMB with more than 4 million employees use a PEO; this is 15% of all employers with 10-99 employees
HCC helps small businesses simplify being an employer
- We do this by sharing with employers the responsibility of having employees. The owners and managers retain managing and motiving their staff. HCC takes on the rest.
- This means that HCC handles benefit plan administration, HR issues, payroll, compliance, 401k administration and the technology to support all this.
- HCC is proud to be only one of the 15% of PEO’s that have committed the extra effort, reporting, and expense to meet the Certified Professional Employer Organization (CPEO) standards via the IRS
Most companies have employees. With this comes the legal/compliance and human responsibility that most are not prepared for. Furthermore, most are not large enough to have an internal staff to focus in this area. That is where HCC comes in.
We allow owners to focus on the parts of the business that only they can do.
Additionally, Covid has added rules and legislation that has really challenged business owners.
Change is constant and quick- today the top three topics concerning businesses are hiring and retention, remote workforces and Covid work policies. All areas we help our clients navigate.
Our biggest competitive weapon is our staff and our delivery model.
- We understand that how we treat our employees is how they will treat our customers.
- Each client has a team assigned to them from each discipline. No call centers or 800 numbers. Relationships are built.
We focus a good amount on giving back to the community in a variety of ways:
- Employee-led donation committee that selects annual targets for HCC company donations
- HCC matches us to $100/year/employee for charitable donations of their choosing
- We provide up to 16 paid hours/year/employee for them to volunteer their time to organizations of their choosing
- We discount our fees to nonprofit clients, as well as to start-up clients