A professional employer organization (PEO) is a firm that provides a service under which an employer can outsource employee management tasks such as employee benefits, payroll and workers' compensation, recruiting, risk/safety management, and training and development. It does this by hiring a client company's employees, thus becoming their employer of record for tax purposes and insurance purposes. This practice is known as co-employment
As of 2010, there were more than 700 PEOs operating in the United States, covering 2-3 million workers. PEOs operate in all fifty U.S. states. Similar services are described in Sweden and Germany.
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