Employer Source handles calls for administrative aid

FORT COLLINS — Payroll, claims processing, insurance, human-resource management.

For a small business, these issues can be overwhelming — even to the point of affecting profitability and productivity.

But the growing popularity of professional employer organizations, or PEOs, has prompted one locally owned and operated company to spin off a new division to assist firms with such human-resource needs.

A PEO essentially “co-employs” workers with client companies and through a contract, takes on responsibilities such as payroll, taxes and

benefits.

The new company, a spinoff of Benner Smith Insurance Agency, is called The Employer Source.

“We began to evaluate the industry and looked at it…