Administaff

About Administaff

Administaff, Inc. (NYSE: ASF) is the nation's leading professional employer organization, serving as a full-service human resources department for small and medium-sized businesses throughout the United States. Since the company’s inception in 1986, its mission has been to help the best small to medium-sized businesses succeed, making life better for clients, employees, their families and shareholders.

Administaff delivers its personnel management services by entering into a co-employment relationship with a client company and the client company’s existing employees, including the business owner. Under this arrangement, Administaff assumes or shares many of the responsibilities of being an employer.

Administaff Values

• Integrity as the cornerstone of personal and corporate conduct
• Respect for the worth of the individual
• Commitment to high standards and the pursuit of excellence
• Achieving goals through teamwork and servant leadership
• Anticipating and responding to change as an opportunity to innovate and learn
• Contributing to the communities where we live and work
• Perseverance through an abiding faith and optimism

Employer of Choice

• Administaff provides a comprehensive compensation opportunity that serves to attract, retain and motivate long-term employment of individuals with a demonstrated commitment to integrity and exemplary personal standards of performance. Administaff offers a well-rounded suite of benefits that include:
  • Health Care: Medical, Dental and Vision
  • Retirement Services
  • Life Insurance: Term, Group and Dependent
  • Disability Insurance: Short-Term, Long-Term and Voluntary
  • Adoption Assistance
  • Educational Assistance
• Administaff provides an employee assistance program that provides confidential support, counseling and customized resources and referrals at no cost to the employee.
• The Company also holds an annual fundraiser for aiding full-time employees who experience a time of crisis that warrants financial assistance due to unforeseen circumstances. This year, more than $100,000 is available to help employees in need.
• Administaff provides employees with four hours of paid volunteer time per month to invest in local communities, which earned the Company a national Points of Light Citation (see below). Administaff has an organized volunteer program in each of the 23 markets in which the company does business.
• Administaff employees participate in a performance-based incentive plan that rewards employees based upon achievement of individual, divisional and corporate goals while also linking equity participation for certain employees.

Honors/Recognition

• Best Companies to Work For in Texas: Administaff was named in 2007 to Texas Monthly’s list of Best Companies to Work For in Texas for the second time.
• Best Places to Work: In 2007, Administaff was ranked by the Houston Business Journal as one of the Best Places to Work in Houston in the category of companies with 500 or more employees, marking the sixth year the company has been included on the list. The award was based on the results of a survey sent to all of the company’s Houston-area employees.
• National Points of Light Citation: The Administaff Caring Employees (ACE) program has been recognized with a Points of Light Foundation Citation for for Excellence in Corporate Community Service.

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Meet Sarah Grimstead

Sarah Grimstead is a District Manager II for Administaff’s Los Angeles 3 sales office. Responsible for eight employees, seven of them sales representatives, Sarah is charged with doing whatever it takes to assist her team in communicating the Administaff message in the business community – ultimately helping small to medium-sized businesses succeed by making life better for clients, employees and their families. She joined Administaff 10 years ago as an orientation representative and quickly moved up into management positions in both the Company’s service and sales divisions.

Q: What do you love about your job?

A: I started here in an entry-level position, and for me, it was a step down from where I was in my career as a manager with another company. My objective was to get my foot in the door with a company that I thought really cared about its employees and made an impact on people. So my advice is don’t get hung up on titles and don’t be afraid to make a strategic move in your career if you feel that the benefits outweigh the risk. In the right company, you have every opportunity to prove yourself. After a couple of years, I moved up to orientation supervisor, then orientation manager and then regional orientation manager. Two years ago, I chose to reinvent myself again by transferring to Administaff’s sales division as a sales representative. Moving from a management role into a sales role can be perceived as a step backwards, but for me, it was a way to be more marketable within the organization.

Q: When you made the leap from orientation to sales, how did the Company make the transition easy for you?

A: This career move was challenging because I had never sold anything before, and Administaff made the transition easy by giving me all the tools I needed to be successful. That includes everything from a comprehensive training program to mentoring support. They also allowed me job shadowing so I could experience the job before I made the leap. That helped me make sure I was making the right career move within the organization.

Q: How has Administaff been good for you as a career woman?

A: Administaff was nothing but supportive of my family life from the very beginning. I have two kids, and my manager kicks me out the door when he knows my son is playing in a baseball game. In fact, with the four hours of paid volunteer time that Administaff offers employees each month, I can be the room mom in my daughter’s class, supplementing my work-life balance even more.

I plan on being with Administaff until I retire. I see myself continuing to move up within the organization and grow to make an even greater contribution to the Company. At the end of the day, I want to know that I’ve made a difference, and as long as I feel that I have, then I’m successful and that motivates me each and every day.

Meet Mary Massad

Mary Massad is managing director of Recruiting Services for Administaff. Responsible for operational leadership for corporate and client recruiting programs, she is committed to developing a proven way to attract the best talent and, ultimately, ensure the highest possible level of customer satisfaction. When she joined Administaff in 1994, the company had 134 corporate employees and served 15,000 employees of small business clients – numbers that have grown to 1,800 and 120,000, respectively.

Q: What do you love about your job?

A: Recruiting is an opportunity to change somebody’s life. I try to convey that to our recruiters every chance I get. They have continual opportunities to make a difference for people. For any given individual, our recruiters might be the difference between it being difficult to put food on the table to all of a sudden having a plentiful life.

Additionally, because we are advocates for small business at Administaff, we realize how finding the right person can significantly change the success equation for our clients. Our clients trust us with this enormous responsibility, and we’ve made a big difference for them. That’s been truly rewarding for me.

Q: How has Administaff been good for you as a career woman?

A: As a mom, one of the hardest decisions is, “Do I work, or do I stay home?” It’s daunting to think that you may have to make decisions that take away from your family, but I’ve never experienced that here. I have two children, 20 and 13, who mean the world to me, and I’ve never had to choose between them and my career. At Administaff, from the top down, the expectation is that your family comes first because a work/life balance is essential.

Furthermore, when I was first promoted to the director level, I was given an opportunity to take part in a year-long mentoring program specifically geared toward women. Administaff invested thousands of dollars in this program for me and for others, so as an organization, Administaff is committed to helping women move forward in their careers.

Q: The sister to recruiting is retention. What is important for any organization in terms of keeping and growing its people?

A: Retention really starts on the recruiting side. You have to hire people who are qualified for the job, will be a good fit with the culture of the company and will work well within the framework of the department they join. Once they’re on board, it becomes a matter of revealing the opportunities they have to grow. For me, I was a young mother when I joined Administaff, without many of the typical credentials a company would look for in the roles I was offered, but people here believed in me. It paid off for both of us: I started as a recruiting specialist and am now the managing director of a multibillion-dollar corporation. When a company can promote that kind of nurturing culture, both the company and its individuals will flourish, and retention is assured.