I recently helped with a migration off of a PEO. The client was frustrated with all the ways that the PEO was curtailing their decisions and all of the extra work it involved. “Extra work?” you ask. “But PEOs are supposed to save work.” That’s the myth.

Like you can just tap them on the shoulder and hand them the phone. “Excuse me, Mr. Zuckerberg. Can you please talk to this guy Doug in Minnesota?”

What would happen if you combined the gonzo journalism ethos to labor posters? What if someone went around posting rogue meal and rest break posters in Walmart bathrooms? What if you snuck into construction sites at night to plant lawn signs of OSHA Cares? What if you snuck into hotel laundry rooms to post minimum wage posters in Spanish?

I can’t stand it when people insist on unnecessary steps. Especially if those unnecessary steps are self-defeating.