However, what many entrepreneurs don't expect is that experience can be like a hurdling event. These hurdles often appear as endless administrative forms, tax reports, and compliance with ever-changing workplace regulations. As race continues, obstacles get taller, especially in administering benefits and competing with large companies to recruit and retain talented employees. Before long, many entrepreneurs are unable to concentrate on business, and they lose speed. Consequently, a growing number of business owners are turning to Professional Employment Organizations (P.E.O.s) to remove these hurdles.

P.E.O.s were born out of frustration many small business owners experience when administrative work inhibits ability to grow an organization. To overcome that challenge, a business and a P.E.O. enter into what is called a "co-employer" relationship with existing employees, enabling P.E.O. to serve as business off-site human resources department.

According to National Association of Professional Employer Organizations (NAPEO) (www.napeo.org), there are three principal reasons why P.E.O. industry continues to grow rapidly. Chief among them is increase in number and complexity of workplace regulations (there are currently estimated to be more than 4,000 local, state and federal employment regulations). The second underlying factor stems from need of business owners to attract and retain superior talent in a competitive labor market. For example, with a full-service P.E.O., employees at small and medium sized businesses have access to big company health plans, an employee assistance plan (EAP), a credit-union, educational assistance, a 401K plan, and other employee benefits that previously may have been unavailable. Third, business owners seeking to control their operating costs are turning to P.E.O.s to help them better manage administrative expenses.