What Is a PEO?
A PEO—professional employer organization—enters into a co-employment arrangement with your business, taking on the administrative employer responsibilities for your workforce. That includes payroll, tax filings, HR support, benefits administration, and workers’ compensation. You retain full control of day-to-day operations: who you hire, how you manage your team, and how the business runs. INVO handles the back-office burden; the business stays yours.
A staffing company recruits and places workers for you. A PEO works with the employees you already have. INVO doesn’t supply labor—it takes on the administrative employer responsibilities for your existing workforce: payroll, compliance, HR support, benefits, and workers’ comp. If you’re already employed people and want the back-office burden handled, that’s a PEO.
Co-employment means INVO shares employer responsibilities with your business on paper. INVO handles the administrative side: payroll processing, tax filings, benefits administration, compliance documentation, and workers’ comp. You retain complete control of your workplace—management decisions, job duties, hiring, and day-to-day direction all stay with you.
A PEO makes the most sense when payroll complexity, workers’ comp costs, HR administration, or compliance obligations are taking meaningful time or creating real risk. Reach out if you’re a business owner spending hours on back-office work that should be handled by someone else, or are struggling with benefits access or workers’ comp costs in a high-risk industry.
Working With INVO
INVO works with employers across a range of industries, with depth in construction, manufacturing, hospitality, staffing, and professional services. These are environments where workers’ comp exposure, payroll complexity, and compliance pressure tend to run higher than average and where generic HR outsourcing often falls short. For industries not listed, the best starting point is a direct conversation.
INVO serves employers across multiple states, including multi-state operations for employers with employees in more than one jurisdiction. Contact our team to confirm coverage in your specific state.
After your initial conversation with INVO, we’ll assess your business and confirm fit. If we move forward, INVO handles the onboarding process: gathering payroll, HR, and benefits information, setting up the co-employment structure, and enrolling your employees. The process is designed to be straightforward, and our team stays involved throughout.
INVO’s pricing is based on your employee count and payroll volume. There’s no single published rate because the right structure depends on your specific business. The clearest path to an actual number is a direct conversation with our team. We’ll give you a straightforward picture of what the cost looks like for your situation.
You call your designated INVO contact—one person who knows your account. INVO doesn’t route service issues through a general queue or support portal. Whether the question is about payroll, compliance, HR, or a workers’ comp claim, there’s a specific person at INVO who owns your relationship and answers when you call.
For Brokers and Agents
INVO works directly with PEO brokers and brokerage firms that refer clients or need a specialist PEO partner for high-risk and multi-state accounts. Broker-sourced client relationships are tracked and protected. INVO doesn’t run a parallel sales motion against accounts that come through broker channels. Commission rates and reporting timelines are established before any account is placed.
No. When a broker places a client with INVO, that relationship belongs to the broker. INVO doesn’t prospect against broker-sourced accounts, contact your clients directly, or build a separate pipeline from broker referrals. Our business depends on broker partnerships being sustainable over time, which means your accounts stay yours.
Commission rates are established upfront as part of the partnership conversation, before any account is placed. INVO provides regular reporting so brokers have visibility into what they’ve earned and when payments are made. For specific rate details, contact our team directly. Rates are part of the first conversation.
Yes. Independent agents who encounter a client with a workers’ comp problem that’s hard to place through traditional markets can refer that account to INVO. The agent keeps their client relationship intact. INVO handles the PEO side, and the referring agent earns commission on the placement. INVO walks agents through the process; you don’t need to be a PEO expert to make a referral.
INVO provides workers’ comp coverage through the PEO model and manages claims administration for employers in construction, manufacturing, hospitality, staffing, and other labor-heavy industries. Through co-employment, employees are covered under INVO’s workers’ comp program, which is particularly valuable for employers with elevated risk classifications, variable workforce sizes, or claims histories that make traditional coverage expensive or unavailable.
Services
Yes. INVO processes payroll and manages tax filings across multiple states, including state tax registration and state-specific compliance requirements. Multi-state payroll is one of the more common needs for employers who’ve expanded beyond their home state or hired remote employees in new jurisdictions. INVO handles the filings so you’re not managing each state’s rules independently.
INVO’s HR support covers employee documentation, onboarding and offboarding, compliance guidance, OSHA support, employee handbook development, unlimited background checks, E-Verify, ATS access, workforce management tools, and administrative guidance on employee situations as they arise. For most employers, this provides the practical support of an HR function without requiring a full-time HR hire.
When a claim comes in, INVO manages the claims administration process: filing, communication with the carrier, and tracking through resolution. Your employees are covered under INVO’s workers’ comp program, so the administrative burden of managing a claim doesn’t fall entirely on your team. If something comes up, you call your designated INVO contact.
Through co-employment, your employees gain access to health, dental, vision, and retirement benefits through INVO’s employer group. This gives smaller employers access to coverage options typically available only to larger organizations without the negotiating disadvantage of a single small business going to market alone. Benefits administration and enrollment support are included.