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BEG HR outsourcing, powered by isolved, delivers certified HR professionals and full compliance support while your company keeps its own EIN, benefits plans, and employment structure intact.
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Credit Where Due
Justworks deserves real credit for doing what most of the PEO industry refuses to do: it publishes per-employee pricing on its site. In a category where the standard answer is a sales call and a census request, that openness is genuinely rare, and Justworks built a loyal small-business following on it.
The product is clean, too. The platform is known for being simple and pleasant to use, and the co-employment arrangement gives small teams access to larger-group benefits plans they would struggle to source alone. For startups that want a modern interface and predictable published rates, Justworks earns its reputation.
So the difference between Justworks and BEG is not transparency. It is structure: Justworks delivers its flagship product through co-employment, and BEG never does.
The Trade-Off
Transparent rates do not change the underlying structure. These are traits of co-employment itself, explained in full on our PEO vs. HR outsourcing guide.
The flagship Justworks offering is a PEO arrangement: Justworks becomes the employer of record for tax and benefits administration, and the employment relationship is legally shared.
The benefits value comes from enrolling your team in plans accessed through Justworks. Carriers you chose, plan designs you negotiated, and your broker relationship typically stay behind.
Payroll records, tax filings, and benefits enrollment all accrue inside the co-employment arrangement, which is precisely what makes exiting more than a cancellation.
Ending a PEO relationship means new payroll tax accounts under your own EIN and a benefits re-placement project, ideally timed to plan year boundaries.
Side by Side
| Factor | BEG HR Outsourcing | Justworks |
|---|---|---|
| Who employs your staff | You do, always | Co-employment: shared with the PEO |
| Benefits plans | Yours stay yours | Plans accessed through Justworks replace yours |
| Pricing visibility | Instant estimate for your company, on screen | Published per-employee rates on their site |
| Depth of service | Certified HR team, dedicated partner tier | Platform-first with support included |
| Platform | isolved | Justworks proprietary platform |
| Exit friction | Stop the service; nothing to unwind | Unwind co-employment and re-place benefits |
Honest Answer
If you are an early-stage team with no existing benefits infrastructure, no broker relationship worth protecting, and a genuine need for group benefits access right now, the Justworks co-employment package solves several problems at once, at rates you can read before you talk to anyone. That is a fair deal for the right company.
Stay put as well if your team is happily enrolled mid-plan-year. The sensible moment to weigh HR outsourcing against the PEO model is at renewal, when benefits can move without disruption.
The BEG Alternative
BEG HR outsourcing, powered by isolved, comes in three plans. Essential is live answers from certified HR professionals. Expert adds the custom handbook, posters, new hire packets, and leave administration guidance. Elite adds a dedicated HR Business Partner with proactive compliance alerts. Your company stays the sole employer throughout, and the whole service runs a fraction of the $60K-$100K an in-house HR hire costs. Full detail on the HR outsourcing overview.
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At the smaller end and comparing flat-fee HR services instead? See the Bambee alternative. Weighing premium PEOs too? See the Insperity alternative.
PEO certification status is verifiable through the IRS Certified Professional Employer Organization program.
Questions
No. BEG is HR outsourcing, powered by isolved. There is no co-employment and no employer-of-record change. Your company remains the sole employer, on your own EIN, with your own benefits plans.
Justworks publishes per-employee rates on its site, and credit to them for that. BEG goes a step further for your specific situation: answer six questions and a monthly estimate for your company appears on screen in about 90 seconds, confirmed exactly on a 15-minute call.
Structure. Justworks delivers its flagship product through co-employment, which changes who administers your team and moves benefits onto its plans. BEG delivers HR expertise as a service, leaving your employment structure and benefits plans exactly where they are.
Yes, and that is the point. Because BEG is not a co-employer, your carriers, plan designs, and broker relationship stay untouched. BEG handles the HR side: handbook, compliance, leave administration, and manager support.
Exiting co-employment means re-establishing payroll tax accounts under your own company and re-placing benefits, ideally timed to your plan year. It is manageable with planning, but it is a project. Leaving BEG, by contrast, is simply ending a service.
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