When your business is young, minor errors and surprises can have instant consequences. Your bread and butter customer are on the lookout for a different supplier, your high-achieving, risk-thriving sales rep hands in their resignation or you’re waiting on a bulk payment to jumpstart your cash flow again. However, as your business gains traction and internal processes start to mature, it can take months, even years for the consequences of problems to become apparent. Before long, problems within your business you may not know exist can start to arise before it’s too late to fix.

What’s particularly common in small businesses, is when main figureheads tend to invest too much of their valuable time into mundane business processes. They’ve seen their business grow from a tiny seedling into a thriving organism and their just as much emotionally connected to it as they are financially. Such internal processes as payroll and visa processing requires pinpoint accuracy and attention to detail and so a business owner might find themselves developing a fixation on them and subsequent neglect for more strategic, long term goals. While the “learn along the way” model might work when you’re trying to get your feet off the ground, businesses can develop a mind of their own when they’ve grown to a certain point, so it’s important to drop the DIY model and handover the tasks to more experienced professionals in the field.

The evolution of your employment structure

When you’re first starting out, the morale is quite strong in the small microcosm of the working environment. You’ve assigned important tasks to enthusiastic professionals who’ve invested as much of their time and effort into making the business a success as you. People who have agreed to forgo normal full-time benefits like superannuation for contract terms evidently believe in the product and want to watch it prosper.

Considering the above, when your business gets to a point of legitimacy where you’re required to employ more staff, hiring on contract terms can be unrealistic. Ultimately, a larger company demands full-time employment to retain great staff but if you don’t have experience in hiring on full-time terms, this can cause you a headache. Australia PEO are a fantastic support for those business owners who don’t have experience in standard HR processes. We offer the strategy, intelligence and expertise that helps minimise your risk of error and risk of over expenditure of internal resources.

Unspoken agreements about standard business practices.

As a young business, it’s common for a small team to have unspoken agreements on how things are to be done. For instance, the exact date of when payroll occurs may differ by a day or two or employee induction programs run fluidly without any clear structure. As your business grows in size, however, you will find these shared understandings might fluctuate in meaning and they become difficult to manage.

Your new team of full-time staff might begin to ask questions; how do I record sick leave or How do I request holiday leave? As a business owner, you might be asking; how do I correctly record payroll calculations? Are these specific compliance regulations I should be abiding by? By outsourcing your HR requirements to Australia, we take care of the nitty gritty, so you can focus more on being the beating heart of the business, without having to ask the questions.

Don’t ask the world of your employees

You’ve probably lost count of how many times your staff have saved you from disastrous consequences. However, not every mundane data entry job has to be manually performed. In the world of automation, there most likely is a tool to do the job for you, so do your research to make sure your performing tasks in the most cost and time efficient manner.

If you’re finding it hard to keep up with transactional or repetitive tasks but don’t have the funds to hire an internal HR employee, then it might be time to think about partnering with Australia PEO. We look after such repetitive tasks as payroll, benefits consulting and administration, employee handbook development, recruitment and compliance/risk management with industry knowledge and expertise required to do it properly.

What appears to run smoothly early on, might start to show disastrous cracks in years to come. If you don’t have the skills or industry-specific experience to perform the basic management responsibilities inherent in any business, it might be time to consider Australia PEO, before problems within your business you may not know exist start to become apparent. While we may not be able to alleviate every risk related to your business landscape, we can greatly reduce them which can subsequently improve business efficiency. Contact us today to find out how we can help.