For over 15 years, EmphasisHR as the premier Paylocity HR outsourcing team for hundreds of small to mid-sized businesses, saving clients an averages of 15 hours per week. From onboarding to handbooks to FMLA and compliance, our dedicated team of Paylocity experts become fully integrated into your HCM software from day one to handle all of your business needs.
You have the software. Now get the support.
“I think it’s a natural fit having the implementation lead into managed services. The people who are the closest to your data, closest to the implementation easily transition into supporting you from Day 1. There’s no loss in expertise or knowledge, it’s a natural fit.”
Paylocity is a powerful HCM solution to streamline tasks and bring automation to your HR process. However, software alone can’t write policy or boost the employee experience. When you try to manage HR alone, you risk:
Compliance Risks: Missing critical, real-time updates in EEO and FLSA regulations.
Administrative Overload: Trying to create workflows from scratch instead of focusing on strategic initiatives.
Low Adoption: Important features like Employee Self-Service or the Mobile App go underused or untouched.
EmphasisHR’s proven workflows become the driver for your Paylocity software. We leverage Paylocity’s process automation and integrations to execute your day-to-day operations. From human resources to payroll processing all the way to benefits administration, you get the efficiency of Paylocity’s platform combined with a dedicated HR team with countless years of experience.
From onboarding to the final exit, we handle the administration, risk, and development of your workforce.
Your single point of contact for the day-to-day.
Dedicated HR Manager: A real person who understands your business, supported by a team of Paylocity experts.
Employee HR Hotline: Direct support for your staff so you aren’t the middleman or woman.
Onboarding & Offboarding: Our Paylocity workflows ensure a smooth “day one” and a compliant exit.
Employee Record Management: We maintain a single, searchable source of truth of employee data for offer letters, pay stubs, and tax filings.
Handbook Development: We write and update policies to minimize risk and maximize best practices.
Compliance Reporting: We monitor work authorizations, EEO data, and FLSA status.
Leave Administration: We handle the complexities of FMLA tracking and administration.
Employee Relations: Expert guidance on discipline support and difficult termination procedures.
Performance Management: We configure reviews, track compensation, and assign required skills.
Training & Development: We implement training courses to upskill your team.
Employee Engagement Surveys: We measure sentiment to help with staffing decision-making.
Most companies only use 40% of their HRIS software’s capability. We ensure you are utilizing Paylocity’s full suite to save time and improve accuracy.
Employee Self-Service Adoption: We train your team to access paystubs and request time off via the mobile app, reducing admin questions.
Custom Dashboard Reporting: We use custom fields to track the exact data your business needs.
HR Process Automation: We set up workflows to eliminate time-consuming manual tasks.
Hiring an internal HR Generalist is expensive and leaves you with a “single point of failure.” EmphasisHR provides you with a dedicated team of HR professionals.
For over 15 years, growth companies have turned to EmphasisHR to be their all-in-one HR team to cover their Paylocity business needs.
It’s time to pair the best HR software with the HR professionals who know it best.
Paylocity (NASDAQ: PCTY) is a cloud-based human capital management (HCM) platform founded in 1997 and headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois. It serves small to mid-sized businesses with modules for payroll processing, HR administration, benefits enrollment, time and attendance, talent management, and employee engagement. EmphasisHR partners exclusively with Paylocity because of its unified platform architecture, mobile-first design, AI-powered automation tools, and its integration capabilities with accounting systems like QuickBooks, NetSuite, and Sage Intacct. As a Paylocity-exclusive partner, our team’s expertise is concentrated entirely on this single platform.
No. If you don’t currently use Paylocity, our team can handle the full implementation for you through our Managed Paylocity Implementation service. We’ll configure the platform around your specific business needs, migrate your data, and ensure everything is running before we transition into ongoing managed support. If you’re already on Paylocity, we integrate directly into your existing setup.
Our Managed HR service covers the full employee lifecycle within your Paylocity platform. This includes day-to-day HR administration, a dedicated HR Manager as your single point of contact, an Employee HR Hotline for your staff, employee handbook and policy development, compliance monitoring for EEO reporting, FLSA classification, and FMLA leave administration, performance review configuration using Paylocity’s Performance Management module, employee relations guidance including discipline and termination procedures, and training and development through Paylocity’s Learning Management module. We manage onboarding workflows, offboarding processes, and employee record maintenance — operating as your outsourced HR department directly inside Paylocity’s HR & Payroll module.
With a Professional Employer Organization (PEO), you enter a co-employment arrangement where the PEO becomes the employer of record for your team. That means you share control over HR decisions. With EmphasisHR, you retain full ownership of your employees, your Paylocity platform, your benefits plans, and your data. We provide the expertise and daily management without the co-employment strings attached. If you’re currently in a PEO and considering a transition, we specialize in that as well.
EmphasisHR primarily serves small to mid-sized businesses, which aligns with Paylocity’s core market of organizations with 20 to 1,000 employees. Paylocity offers industry-specific configurations for healthcare, manufacturing, retail, professional services, financial services, nonprofit, and education. Whether you have a lean team without dedicated HR staff or a growing company that has outgrown a single HR generalist, our managed services scale to match your headcount and operational complexity.
Most companies only use a fraction of their HRIS platform’s capabilities. Our team ensures you’re leveraging Paylocity’s full suite — including Employee Self-Service, the mobile app, custom dashboard reporting, automated workflows, and performance tools. We handle the configuration, training, and ongoing optimization so you actually use the features you’re paying for.
Yes. We provide an Employee HR Hotline so your staff can reach a real HR professional directly, rather than routing every question through you or your office manager. This removes you from the middleman role and ensures employees get timely, compliant answers.
We monitor federal, state, and local regulatory changes — including Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) reporting, Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) classification of exempt and non-exempt employees, Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave tracking and administration, and I-9 work authorization verification. We develop and maintain your employee handbook to ensure policies comply with current federal and state employment law. Within Paylocity, we use the Compliance Dashboard to track regulatory changes and flag required actions before they become exposed.
We manage the entire transition, including data migration, benefits carrier coordination, payroll setup, and system configuration within Paylocity. If you’re switching from a PEO, our implementation team becomes your ongoing managed services team, so there’s no knowledge gap or handoff period — the people who build your system are the same people who support it day to day.
An in-house HR Generalist comes with salary, benefits, training costs, and the risk of a single point of failure if that person leaves. EmphasisHR provides you with a dedicated team of HR professionals for a fraction of that cost. Pricing is tailored to your company size and service needs — you can book a consultation to get a specific quote.
