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PEO Clients in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Follow-Up Analysis

NAPEO White Paper Series

This white paper explores the effect that PEOs have had on business outcomes for their clients over the course of the pandemic to date, building on findings in the 2020 NAPEO white paper that undertook a short-term analysis of PEO impacts during the initial months of the pandemic.

In particular, this paper explores how PEO clients have fared from early 2020 through July 2021 across a range of different measures in the following broad categories:

• Business operations
• Changes in employment
• Success in accessing major government support programs