Maybe you don’t have an HR department. Maybe you have an HR person who has run out of capacity. Outsourcing HR means handing that work to people who do it every day.
With EANE, you get a dedicated HR Business Partner who learns your organization, backed by in-house specialists in compliance, compensation, employee relations, and recruiting.
HR Outsourcing for New England Employers
- HR compliance. Pay transparency, paid leave, classification, postings, and recordkeeping, advised on by someone who works in New England.
- Employee handbooks. Build one from scratch or bring your current one up to date, with policies that hold up in every state you operate in.
- Employee relations and workplace investigations. An experienced neutral investigator when you receive a complaint, plus help working through discipline and termination decisions before they turn into claims.
- Hiring and recruiting. Job descriptions, salary assessments, postings, sourcing, phone screens, behavioral interviews, background checks, and offer negotiation.
- HR audits. A structured review of your policies, files, classifications, leave administration, and documentation, with a prioritized list of what to fix first.
- Compensation. Benchmark your pay against New England data covering hundreds of roles and thousands of employees, run a pay equity assessment, or build a full compensation structure.
- Benefits compliance. We review your plans against what the law requires and leave the administration and the insurance to your broker.
- Affirmative action plans. Federal contractor requirements handled by affirmative action experts.
- Employee feedback. Engagement surveys, stay interviews, exit interviews, and 360 evaluations, with help reading the results and deciding what to do about them.
- Succession and workforce planning. Who’s ready, who’s close, and how do you prepare.
Three Ways to Work With Us
By project
A defined scope, a clear outcome, and a cost you know before we start.
Ongoing monthly support
A set number of hours each month with your dedicated HR Business Partner and access to the specialist team behind them. No annual contract.
Fractional or interim coverage
No matter the situation, we can usually fill an HR gap within days with an expert HR Business Partner.
When Employers Contact Us
- Your HR person left. You need someone to keep things running while you figure out what comes next.
- You’re the owner doing HR on top of running the business, and that stopped working a while ago.
- You’re leaving a PEO and transitioning HR support.
- Your workforce got complicated. Employees in multiple states, seasonal staff, grant-funded roles.
- There’s a project nobody can get to. Your HR person is good but buried.
- Your current provider isn’t delivering. Costs crept up, the person you liked is gone, and you can’t get anyone on the phone.
How EANE Compares to Other HR Outsourcing Options
| Option | What you get | Tradeoffs |
| EANE | A dedicated HR Business Partner backed by in-house specialists in compliance, compensation, investigations, and recruiting | We don’t touch payroll, benefits administration, or insurance. Those stay with your current providers |
| A PEO | HR bundled with payroll, benefits, and insurance on one bill | Co-employment puts your employees on their books, usually with an annual contract, per-employee fees, and whoever is assigned to your account this year |
| Your payroll or benefits provider’s HR add-on | Usually a self-serve HR portal included in what you pay | Fine until the question gets specific, then you’re in a queue with someone working from national guidance who doesn’t know your organization. |
| A solo HR consultant | One experienced person who gets to know you | One person’s hours and one person’s expertise. Capacity, vacations, and anything outside their expertise become your problem |
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What does outsourced HR include?
At EANE it covers the HR function itself: compliance, employee handbooks, employee relations and investigations, HR audits, compensation, recruiting, employee surveys, succession planning, and training. You get a dedicated HR Business Partner backed by in-house specialists. It does not include payroll processing, benefits administration, or insurance, which stay with your existing providers.
Do you handle payroll?
No. Payroll stays with whoever runs it today. We’ll work alongside your payroll provider on anything HR touches, like classification, pay changes, or leave, but we don’t process it.
Is this a PEO?
No. There’s no co-employment. Your employees stay on your payroll and your tax ID, and your benefits and workers’ comp stay exactly where they are unless you ask us to help you look at them.
How much does outsourced HR cost?
It depends on whether you want a defined project or ongoing monthly support, and how many hours a month that support needs to be. Project work is scoped and priced before we start. Monthly support is a set number of hours, adjustable as your needs change, with no annual contract. Members pay reduced rates on both.
Do I have to be an EANE member?
No. Any employer can hire us for consulting or training. Members get reduced rates, plus the HR Hotline and the compliance alerts, survey data, and peer roundtables that come with membership.