As we’ve seen in this series on HR for small business, there are some very important human resources requirements for small business. You need to hire the right people, offer competitive pay and benefits, provide effective training, and much more.

Yet in most small businesses, resources are quite limited. With few reserves to draw on and a lot of competing priorities, it can be hard to justify the cost of hiring a dedicated HR team. So HR functions can become a part-time responsibility for the owner or another manager, with the result that they don’t always get the attention they deserve.

In this scenario, outsourcing some or all of your HR functions to an external provider can make a lot of sense. It’s a solution that’s growing in popularity—HR reported 27% growth in 2016, according to a PrismHR report. And the most popular category of target customers for these firms was small businesses with 16 to 50 worksite employees.

So in this tutorial, you’ll learn all about HR outsourcing for small businesses. You’ll learn how it works and why you should consider it, and then you’ll get details of some of the top HR service providers. You’ll also get guidance on how to make the decision and when it makes sense to outsource HR vs. keeping it in-house.