About SPMI

Why choose SPMI?

Deciding to go ahead with HR outsourcing and choosing SPMI takes careful thought. You need to do your homework:

• Determine your HR and risk management needs.
• Make sure the SPMI is capable of meeting your strategic goals.
• Ask for complete references – meet the people who will serve your company.
• Understand the PEO’s benefits offerings. How are they funded? Do the specific benefits being offered fit your employees’ needs?
• Understand how the various SPMI services are delivered and the experience/qualifications of key staff, particularly in areas such as risk management.
• Review the service agreement carefully and make sure you understand its provisions.

As one of the companies at the forefront of the full-service human resource services model starting in the 1990s, SPMI prides ourselves on setting the bar for experience, integrity, and customer service. Our management team includes experienced HR professionals with backgrounds in employee relations, benefits, risk management, regulatory compliance, and related areas.

As one of the companies at the forefront of the full-service human resource services model starting in the 1990s, SPMI prides ourselves on setting the bar for experience, integrity, and customer service. Our management team includes experienced HR professionals with backgrounds in employee relations, benefits, risk management, regulatory compliance, and related areas.

SPMI acts as your human resources department. We assemble a team of experts skilled in different areas of HR, who report directly to you:

• HR administration
• Benefits
• Payroll
• Risk management and safety
• Regulatory compliance

What is a PEO?

A professional employer organization (PEO) provides integrated services which enable business owners to cost-effectively outsource the management of human resources, employee benefits, payroll and workers’ compensation. PEOs deliver these services through a co-employment relationship.

SPMI has the capability to provide in entirety these services or can alternatively customize on a client by client basis to serve your needs.

What is Co-Employment?

In a co-employment relationship, the client company continues to direct employees’ day-to-day duties and activities. Because the PEO takes on the majority of HR management chores, the client company is freed to focus on the production and delivery of its products and/or services.

At the same time, SPMI, as the PEO, contractually assumes certain rights, responsibilities, and risks. We are the “employer of record” on an employee’s W-2. As such we deliver and manage employee benefits, payroll processing and tax administration, workers’ compensation, state unemployment insurance, assist with EEOC claims, and much more.

What is Employee Leasing?

A Professional Employer Organization (PEO) is not the same thing as an employee leasing company. The basic function of the latter is to achieve economies of scale through volume purchasing of employee health benefits and other “big-ticket” items. What employee leasing companies don’t generally deliver are the value-added services that SPMI provides:

• Professional development and training
• HR compliance guidance
• Risk management
• Employee relations expertise

SPMI expands well beyond the basic employee leasing model to achieve much more encompassing services, transforming it into a true outsourced HR management solution.

Why Outsource Your HR Responsibilities?

The advantages of outsourcing HR management to SPMI are clear and compelling:

• More productive use of time and resources – companies can devote internal resources and capital funds to revenue-generating activities
• Improved business focus on producing and delivering goods and services – not HR paperwork and compliance issues
• Guidance from experts from across the business spectrum
• Access to state-of-the-art HRMS technology, training and development, Fortune 500®-level benefits, and much more

When business owners outsource HR management to SPMI, they get expert support and guidance in all areas of HR, including employee relations, health benefits and 401(k), payroll and taxes, risk management, workplace safety, compliance, and more.

Our clients also get the advantage of our affiliation with SPMI, the regional leader in business outsourcing. Hundreds of companies around Arkansas and across the United States rely on SPMI for:

• Progressive HR solutions
• Fully integrated services
• Effective systems for greater functionality, flexibility, and control
• Cutting edge technology
• Proven methodologies and best practices

Why choose SPMI?

Deciding to go ahead with HR outsourcing and choosing SPMI takes careful thought. You need to do your homework:

• Determine your HR and risk management needs.
• Make sure the SPMI is capable of meeting your strategic goals.
• Ask for complete references – meet the people who will serve your company.
• Understand the PEO’s benefits offerings. How are they funded? Do the specific benefits being offered fit your employees’ needs?
• Understand how the various SPMI services are delivered and the experience/qualifications of key staff, particularly in areas such as risk management.
• Review the service agreement carefully and make sure you understand its provisions.

As one of the companies at the forefront of the full-service human resource services model starting in the 1990s, SPMI prides ourselves on setting the bar for experience, integrity, and customer service. Our management team includes experienced HR professionals with backgrounds in employee relations, benefits, risk management, regulatory compliance, and related areas.

SPMI acts as your human resources department. We assemble a team of experts skilled in different areas of HR, who report directly to you:

• HR administration
• Benefits
• Payroll
• Risk management and safety
• Regulatory compliance

Your company has a designated SPMI contact for each functional area. Our managers and staff work diligently behind the scenes to deliver accurately your services, answer your questions, and help resolve your problems.

How it Works

SPMI's Professional Employer Organization (PEO), provides employers with 1 to 1000 employees a comprehensive Human Resources outsourcing solution that helps reduce the costs and complexities related to employment and human resources management. SPMI’s integrated PEO services enable employers to deal with the costs, complexities, and administrative burdens of human resources and employment management.

Benefits of Outsourcing

• Effectively manages critical human resource responsibilities and employer risks for clients. 
• Allows you to offer a better overall package of benefits with which to attract and retain employees.
• Outsourcing frees up your time, so you can focus on the operational and revenue-producing side of the business.
• Reconciles on a monthly basis all insurance bills, remits payments, and researches any discrepancies between what the carrier is charging versus what is setup for each employee.
• Calculates and sets up any refunds or missed premiums that are due.