Misclassification and Co-Employment Risk Management in 1991.
In doing so, PRO can tout a proven track record of innovation (“industry firsts”) that include: Indeed, PRO’s offerings have evolved over the years because we have listened to our customers while keeping a close eye on the marketplace. Leading with innovation and placing customers at the forefront are crucial cornerstones that the company laid when it was first founded. With the right contingent workforce management processes and systems, organizations can realize tangible business outcomes. While the marketplace has changed over the years - from new business requirements and technologies to additional regulations - PRO’s vision and mission have remained the same. PRO sought to tear down those silos and provide enterprise‐wide transparency by building connections and managing the processes between all of the different contingent workforce stakeholders. Part of the problem is that contingent workforce programs operated in myriad silos and lacked visibility across all of them. And with this growth came greater risks around tax and benefit liabilities. Especially for large companies, the contingent workforce quickly became an important operational lynchpin, though it also grew into a substantial cost. Suddenly, growing percentages of the workforce became contingent workers-temps, independent contractors, consultants, among others. Large companies were downsizing their workforces for lower costs and greater flexibility, giving rise to a rapid proliferation of temporary staffing providers. At the time, the workplace was in the early stages of a dramatic transformation.