If you’ve worked with Focus HR over the past year, you may have noticed something: we quietly became part of a much bigger team. In August 2025, Focus HR officially joined OneDigital, one of the country’s leading PEO, insurance, and HR consulting firms. We’ve combined our dedicated, personalised service with the resources of a national platform. Same local team, bigger toolkit.
Whether you’ve been with us for years or are exploring Focus HR for the first time, here’s exactly what this means for you and your business.
What Actually Changed (And What Didn’t)
Here’s the short version: not much, day to day.
Your Focus HR team is still your Focus HR team:
- Same Tucson office
- Same local HR, payroll, and benefits specialists
- Same hands-on, “someone actually answers the phone” service model
Greg Stutz, Focus HR’s Chief Operating Officer, continues to oversee client operations alongside the same team you’ve worked with. What’s different is what’s now standing behind that team.
Why a Local PEO Partners With a National One
Founded in 2003 by Tracy Cole, Focus HR built its reputation by showing up, picking up the phone, and treating every client’s HR problem like it mattered. Over more than two decades, that approach helped Focus HR support more than 500 small businesses across 47 states, onboard over 11,000 employees, and maintain a client retention rate above 97%.
OneDigital brought scale. With more than 100,000 employers relying on its insurance, benefits, retirement, and HR consulting services nationwide, OneDigital’s PEO division now spans 17 offices and more than 400 professionals.
The idea behind the partnership is straightforward: keep the local relationship, add the national muscle.
What Focus HR Clients Get Access to Now
For Focus HR clients, the partnership translates into practical advantages:
Broader benefit carrier access
A larger national platform means access to a wider range of health, dental, vision, and ancillary benefit carriers and plans that smaller, standalone PEOs can’t always secure. If you’ve been limited by what a smaller plan portfolio can offer your employees, this changes that.
A deeper compliance bench
OneDigital’s compliance consulting team pairs dedicated consultants with in-house ERISA attorneys. If your business ever faces a DOL or IRS audit, that team steps in directly — and they track regulatory change at federal and state level, backing up what your local Focus HR team already advises on.
A much larger retirement and wealth practice
OneDigital’s retirement and wealth arm oversees more than $137 billion in client assets across 5,800+ retirement plans, including its Complete Retirement Solution built specifically for small and midsized businesses. Advisors are generally paid based on assets managed rather than commissions.
More investment in HR technology
A national platform means ongoing investment in HR tech, reporting, and self-service tools — without your local team having to build it from scratch. This continues to expand as OneDigital grows.
None of that replaces the relationship. It backs it up.
What This Means If You’re Comparing PEO Providers
If you’re currently comparing HR outsourcing options for your small business, the OneDigital partnership is worth factoring into your decision. You no longer have to choose between a small, personal provider and a large, well-resourced one. Focus HR offers both: a local team that knows your name, with a national platform behind it.
For more on how HR consulting and outsourcing works for small businesses, or to understand how a PEO relationship is structured, those pages are a good starting point.
If you want to see what this combination looks like for your business specifically, the Focus HR team offers a free, no-obligation consultation.
About the Author
Clint Parry, MBA, SHRM-SCP is a Senior Business Consultant at Focus HR, now powered by OneDigital. Based in Arizona, Clint works with growing companies to help them turn HR from an administrative burden into a strategic advantage.
