Article: Payroll task: In-house or out?

Byline: Barry Flynn

When you run a small business, you are responsible for everything. But Jerry E. Pierce, whose Restaurant Equipment World has about 30 employees, draws the line at doing his own payroll.

Instead, Restaurant Equipment World, which distributes and installs restaurant equipment, sends the work out to a professional payroll company that takes care of it for him.

In contrast, Pierce's friend W. Bruce O'Donoghue is more hands-on. O'Donoghue's Control Specialists Co., a distributor and installer of traffic signals and related equipment in Winter Park, Fla., also has about 30 employees. But he keeps his payroll chores in-house.

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