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At Scale and the Seventy Percent Nobody Sees
A campaign may be remembered for its message. At Scale built a business around the less photogenic truth: the doors only get knocked when payroll, turf, training and data work first.
Michael Young’s Payroll Playbook: Pick Up the Phone
At ConnectPay, Michael Young has spent years proving that payroll technology works better when a real person still answers. His formula pairs local relationships with repeatable systems - for every pay run and every acquisition.
How an 8-Person Idaho HR Firm Beat the Big Boxes - Then Took the High Road to Scale
High Road PEO sold small businesses something they rarely get from payroll vendors: a human who knows their name. Its 2025 merger with Helpside is a test of whether that intimacy can survive a much bigger operating system.
Insperity
Insperity built a $6.8 billion business by taking on the work small companies cannot afford to get wrong. Now its service-heavy PEO model is being rebuilt for a Workday world.