HR solutions built for growing Canadian companies
— flexible, scalable, and strategic.
Services
Choose the right HR service for your business
Outsourced HR Services
Our experienced HR professionals become part of your team. Comprehensive outsourced HR services across various functions, including onboarding, offboarding, recruitment, performance management, payroll and more. Our expert team ensures that your HR tasks are managed efficiently, allowing you to focus on growing your business while we handle the details.
Project Based Services
We provide essential tools to strengthen your organizational structure within HR and people operations. Our solutions ensure compliance with legal requirements, ultimately enhancing overall efficiency across your business. With our expertise, you can build a strong foundation that supports your teams success while aligning with best practices in HR management.
Retainer Packages
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Recommended for Startup Businesses
Included in this package are a variety of crucial HR documents, templates, processes and ongoing guidance essential for establishing core HR foundation and confidently managing the entire employee lifecycle:
HR Compliance Guidance
‍HR Documents & Templates: Essential Employment Documents ; Offer Letter Templates ; Guidelines for Employee Files ; Mandatory Government Forms & Documents to meet compliance ; Templates for Full Cycle Recruiting
Personalized Onboarding Checklist & process
Employee Handbook & Workplace Policies Guidance
Helpful Guides for a Successful Employee Experience
Recruitment Guidance
Employee Management & Performance Guidance
Founder & Manager Support
Unlimited HR Advice
This comprehensive package is designed to streamline HR processes and enhance employee management from recruitment to onboarding and beyond.
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Recommended for Growing Businesses
Our Small Business HR Package is designed for growing businesses looking for a complete HR management service to efficiently manage their people function, improve HR practices, reduce risk & costs and ensure legal compliance:
Dedicated HR Executive: Ongoing strategic and hands-on support to manage your people function and navigate applicable provincial requirements.
HR Compliance & Risk Management: Compliance audit, ongoing monitoring and support addressing areas of HR risk.
Essential HR Tools:
Employee handbook & workplace policies
Job descriptions
Employment documents, templates & resources
HR Tech (HRIS) selection and implementation
Essential HR Processes:
Recruitment (Talent Acquisition)
Employee onboarding and offboarding
Employee relations
Performance management
Payroll and benefit selection and coordination
Day-to-day HR Management: ongoing HR management, manager guidance and employee support.
Unlimited HR Advice: ongoing access to your dedicated HR Executive for HR questions, guidance and support.
Our comprehensive HR management service allows you to focus on growing your business while we manage your HR function.
For tailored quote, contact us to discuss your business goals and project objectives.
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Do-It-Yourself HR
Monthly Cost
$5,000 to $10,000+ in unnecessary costs and lost productivity.
Works Best For
Startups with a headcount under 10 that are still finding their product-market fit.
Expertise
Maybe some — but we’re guessing this isn’t your expertise, nor your passion for that matter.
Systems & Processes
- Loose policies (if any)
- Unclear company values
- Unstructured talent acquisition
- Minimal formal onboarding
- Infrequent performance conversations
- Unstructured offboarding
Outcomes
- Compliance blindspots
- Lack of culture
- Performance issues
- Misalignment
- Too many hiring mistakes
- High turnover
AskHR's Outsourced Service
Monthly Cost
$1,500-$5,000
Works Best For
Startups and Small businesses with product-market fit.
Expertise
10+ years of progressive HR experience across Canada, plus a team of senior HR experts to lean on.
Systems & Processes
- Custom Employee Handbooks
- Values Identification
- Modern Performance Reviews
- Structured Talent Acquisition
- Onboarding & Offboarding Checklists
- Always-on Expert Advice
Outcomes
- Fully Compliant Workplace
- Solid Company Culture
- Increased Performance
- Stronger Alignment
- Hire More A-Players
- Keep People Longer
HR Hire
Monthly Cost
$7,000 – $10,000+ in compensation, payroll taxes and expenses.
Works Best For
Companies whose headcount is over 70 and on the way to 100+.
Expertise
Depends on the person you hire, who then has to fulfill this role independently.
Systems & Processes
- Employee Handbooks
- Onboarding & Offboarding Checklists
- Always-on Advice
- Values Identification
- Performance Reviews
- Talent Acquisition
Outcomes
- Fully Compliant Workplace
- Stronger Alignment
- Increased Performance
- Solid Company Culture
- Hire More A-Players
- Keep People Longer
How AskHR’s Retainer Service Works
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Project Based Services
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Our Employee Handbook services provide extensive support for businesses by creating, reviewing, revising, maintaining, and publishing handbooks tailored to their specific needs. We understand that companies operating in multiple provinces face unique challenges regarding compliance and regulations. Therefore, we ensure that your employee handbooks are comprehensive and align with the laws of each province where your business operates. Please note that additional charges may apply for the maintenance and publication of handbooks across multiple provinces.
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Our Full HR Compliance Audit includes a complete review of your HR practices, personalized recommendations, and straightforward next steps to ensure you meet all HR regulations. This audit aims to identify potential HR risks and offers practical solutions to reduce them.
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Our Onboarding Services cover a variety of important tasks, including:
Creating or updating checklists
Managing new-hire paperwork
Ensuring compliance with reporting requirements
Coordinate with client resources to set up equipment and workstations
Making key announcements
Drafting onboarding plans
Conducting orientations
Performing new-hire check-ins
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We assess your hiring process from start to finish, reviewing job postings, interview guides, reference templates, and candidate selection methods to identify areas for improvement.
After evaluation, we offer hands-on recruitment services to strengthen your hiring strategy. From refining job descriptions to sourcing top talent, we provide tailored support to help you build the right team.
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Our Performance Management Services include a comprehensive review of your current process and the establishment of structured modern reviews. We tailor the system to align with your organization's culture, ensuring effective planning, monitoring, evaluation, coaching, mentoring, and documentation. This includes 90-day, 6-month, and annual reviews, as well as facilitating 360-degree feedback for senior leadership and other services.
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Our Progressive Discipline services offer:
A detailed review of your disciplinary process
Recommendations for improvement
An assessment of documentation and filing procedures
We also support:
Issuing warnings
Implementing Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs)
Managing suspensions
Addressing employee appeals
Reviewing internal policies related to past termination processes
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Our HR Support Services provide you with a dedicated virtual HR consultant. This consultant can assist with:
Answering questions about company policies
Conducting onboarding and offboarding processes
Guiding you on compliance matters
Offering best practices in HR processes
Addressing employee relations issues
For tailored quote, contact us to discuss your business goals and project objectives.
Ready to learn more?
You can book a call or send us a message. We’d be happy to explore how we can help.
Frequently Asked Questions
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A senior HR leader on your team, part-time, providing the same capacity as a full-time hire, at a fraction of the cost.
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Comprehensive support for all HR functions, strategy, policies, compliance, performance management, recruitment support, culture and more. We give you everything you need to build a successful business. We build and implement a custom HR roadmap for your business, using progressive strategies and proven processes to drive measurable results.
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We provide ongoing HR leadership on fractional basis (part-time), managing strategy, setup HR processes and day-to-day operations — not just one-off projects or just hiring.
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You get the same capacity as an internal hire, with senior-level expertise (10+ years), but at a fraction of the cost and time, plus a partner focused on both strategy and execution. It’s a win-win for your business.
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For fractional service, we focus on startups and small-medium businesses in Canada, typically with 10-70 people. For HR Advisor and employee handbook service, companies of all sizes.
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We do not administer payroll directly, but we work closely with your payroll provider to ensure compliance and that HR processes align with payroll accurately.
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We do not administer benefits directly, but we help you setup and manage benefits with a benefits broker and work closely with them to ensure a positive experience for your employees.
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All our consultants are certified senior HR professionals with university degrees in HR, have HR designations (Certified Human Resources Leader (CHRL), and bring more than 10 years of experience supporting growing teams across Canada.
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Absolutely, our services are flexible, allowing you to scale HR support up or down as your business grows.
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We typically begin working with clients within 2 weeks of signing the service agreement.
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