HRBuffalo | HR Services
Strategic HR Leadership — When You Need It, Without the Overhead
At HRBuffalo, we provide fractional HR support for growing and scaling businesses that need expert guidance — without the burden of hiring a full-time HR team. Whether you’re facing rapid growth, organizational change, or compliance issues, our team steps in as your trusted HR advisor.
HRBuffalo exists to solve the critical issues facing our clients, both large and small. Our unique approach is not only what differentiates us, but also what makes us successful. We provide a broad range of human resource services and solutions to help organizations facilitate change, achieve their vision, and optimize performance and productivity.
What Is Fractional HR?
Fractional HR means HRBuffalo provides dedicated, ongoing HR leadership and support for a number of hours per week or month. It’s ideal for companies that need high-level HR strategy, but don’t have the workload—or budget—for a full-time hire.
We work on-site or virtually, aligning with your team to build strong people practices that scale.
What We Help With:
Developing HR strategy aligned to business goals
Creating and implementing HR policies and handbooks
Managing employee relations and investigations
Leading performance management and review cycles
Supporting leadership with workforce planning
Ensuring compliance with labor laws (local, state, federal)
Building systems for hiring, onboarding, and retention
Works well for:
Small to mid-sized businesses scaling quickly
Startups without in-house HR
Companies going through transitions (ownership changes, layoffs, growth)
Organizations that need strategic HR without hiring a full-time HR Manager or Director
Why HRBuffalo?
Your HR Partner for Growth, Compliance, and Transitions
HRBuffalo offers tailored solutions to support your organization’s unique HR needs. From ongoing strategic guidance through Fractional HR Management, to project-based support for handbooks, audits, or performance systems, we help build strong HR foundations. Our Compliance Support Subscription keeps your policies aligned with evolving laws, minimizing risk while saving you time and stress.
Hiring, Exits, and Everything In Between
Whether you’re scaling your team or navigating layoffs, we deliver practical support through Recruiting & Staffing Solutions and Outplacement Services. We help you attract the right talent quickly—and provide compassionate, structured offboarding to protect your brand. Our services meet your company where it is and move you forward with confidence.
We’re real people, not a 1-800 number or software solution
Our HR experts bring in-the-field experience
We tailor everything to your culture, team, and business goals
We make it easy—with flexible hours, monthly packages, and responsive support
HRBuffalo | HR Services:
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Fractional HR Management Services
Strategic HR Leadership Without the Full-Time Overhead
Access experienced HR leadership without the commitment of a full-time hire. Our Fractional HR Services provide consistent, hands-on support tailored to your business goals—covering everything from employee relations and policy development to performance management and compliance.
Perfect for small to mid-sized businesses, we act as an extension of your team, delivering strategic and day-to-day HR support when you need it most. Whether you're growing, restructuring, or stabilizing, we provide flexible, high-impact HR that scales with your needs.
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Tailored HR Project Consulting
Targeted HR Support for Your Most Pressing Initiatives
Have a specific HR initiative you need to tackle? Our HR Project Consulting services offer targeted, short-term support to drive impactful outcomes. From building employee handbooks and auditing current practices to launching programs or overhauling performance reviews, we handle your top priorities with expertise and efficiency.
We partner closely with your internal team to ensure every project is practical, compliant, and aligned with your goals. Whether you need extra bandwidth or specialized knowledge, we deliver results that strengthen your people strategy.
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Organizational Change Management
Bringing Clarity to the Chaos
When team dynamics feel off, communication stalls, or key processes aren’t flowing smoothly, HRBuffalo helps uncover what’s really going on beneath the surface. Through confidential conversations and objective analysis, we identify issues like leadership misalignment, departmental disconnects, engagement challenges, and succession gaps.
This thoughtful, low-pressure process gives you clarity and confidence to scale more smoothly while keeping your people engaged. You’ll walk away with a tailored action plan designed to fit your culture, challenges, and goals.
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Recruiting & Staffing Solutions
Find the Right People—Faster
We make hiring easier. Our Recruiting & Staffing Solutions are designed to fill roles quickly and accurately—from entry-level to executive. Whether you need full-cycle recruiting, fractional support, or help scaling a team, we customize our approach to fit your company culture and workforce goals.
With deep expertise and market insight, we help you attract top talent and streamline your hiring process. We also partner with our sister company, StaffBuffalo, to provide specialized recruiting support for high-volume and hard-to-fill roles.
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Outplacement Services
Support Transitions. Protect Your Brand.
Layoffs and workforce changes are never easy—but we help make the process smoother for everyone. Our Outplacement Services provide one-on-one support to exiting employees through resume building, job search coaching, and interview prep.
Designed to protect your employer brand, our outplacement programs are customized to your team’s needs and handled with care. We help former employees transition confidently while showing your commitment to doing the right thing.
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Compliance Support Subscription
Stay Compliant—Without the Guesswork
HR laws are always changing—our Compliance Support Subscription helps you stay ready. We monitor federal and state updates, review your current policies, and deliver proactive guidance to help you stay compliant and avoid costly risks.
Subscribers receive quarterly compliance updates, monthly Q&A calls, and personalized tools to strengthen their internal HR practices. It’s ideal for teams without a full-time compliance lead or companies looking for peace of mind.
Learning and Development Support
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In today's dynamic workplace, organizations must prioritize compliance and employee development to foster a positive and productive environment. Our integrated services address critical areas of compliance and growth, ensuring your workforce is equipped with the knowledge and skills needed for success, including recruitment and interviewing, diversity, equity & inclusion, and workplace conduct trainings. Additionally, we provide annual NYS Sexual Harassment Training customized to your organization, as well as training on communication and conflict resolution skills.
Leadership Development
Nurture future leaders and enhance management capabilities with our leadership development programs. We offer tailored training in People Management & HR fundamentals, leadership coaching, succession planning, recognition & motivation strategies, and active listening skills enhancement. Our goal is to cultivate a strong leadership pipeline that drives sustained success.
Leadership Development support includes:
• Leadership Development: Providing opportunities for employees to develop leadership skills through training, including leadership coaching, feedback, & motivation to help managers implement long-term organizational strategies.
• Performance Management: Set up processes to achieve performance goals, provide feedback, support employees in reaching their full potential, and develop rewards and recognition programs.
• People Management: Develop processes to enhance recruitment, training, performance evaluation, employee relations, and talent retention.
• Talent Management & Succession Planning: Identifying and nurturing high-potential employees, succession planning.
• Employee Engagement: Implementing initiatives to foster a positive work environment.
• Customizable Trainings
On-site & virtual training options are available.
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Once you have that perfect employee, how do you ensure they integrate into your organization and are setup for success?
We will help you design an onboarding program to accomplish setting your new employees up for success and even be on-site on the employee's first day to transition them into your organization.
Employee Recognition
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The age-old question: "Does culture drive performance or does performance drive culture?"
We believe both are correct! It's the yin and yang of business. You must have the right culture to drive performance and the right performance to sustain your culture.
We can administer an unbiased, comprehensive employee engagement survey (sometimes referred to as an "employee satisfaction survey"), identifying which areas need attention and which behaviors should be supported and nurtured. We will also assist in communication and strategic action planning based on and following the results of the assessment.
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Do you have a program designed to motivate, recognize, and incentivize your employees to be better, do better, and achieve great performance?
We will help you design a Rewards & Recognition program that includes both peer and management recognition opportunities.
Worried about your budget? Studies show that non-monetary recognition and the intrinsic reward of simply being recognized for a job well done are more powerful than a cash reward.
Let us help you design a program that aligns with your culture and drives the right behaviors, supporting your business growth.
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It's 2024 and job seekers are tailoring their search to find companies dedicated to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace. If you want to stand out in the market and attract top talent, implementing strong DEI initiatives is a must.
We will help you identify, develop, and execute authentic DEI strategies your candidates are searching for.
This includes:
• Training on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace
• Developing talent attraction and acquisition strategies focused on diversity
• Developing strategies that promote an inclusive workplace
• Auditing, adjusting and introducing policies and practices to ensure equity company-wide
On-site and virtual training options are available.
HR Success
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OD is a science-based (and critical) process that helps organizations build their capacity to change and achieve greater effectiveness by developing, improving, and reinforcing strategies, structures, and processes.
Our experts are experienced and equipped to help your organization with a list of OD assistance, which includes but are not limited to:
• Assistance with developing your company's strategic goals and ensuring the process of achieving them aligns with your mission and core values.
• Helping align your corporate structure and programs to your mission and core values, launching initiatives to support as needed.
• Assistance with corporate governance, employee feedback, and change management
• Strategic Planning Facilitation for Leadership Teams
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Even the best goals and strategies are useless unless you create smart, actionable plans to execute against them.
We will help you design a goal-setting program, as well as a performance evaluation process to measure these goals and rate employee performance objectives.
Performance Management support may also include:
• Custom, unbiased employee performance evaluations
• 360-feedback evaluations for employees and management
• Development and execution of employee improvement plans
• Disciplinary action plans
• Termination assistance
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Constant changes in the tax code, software updates, retirement plan administration, worker’s compensation, and new hire reporting requirements are just a few of the elements that cause manual payroll to slow down your business.
HRBuffalo can help you eliminate the time-consuming and challenging task of payroll administration. We provide a comprehensive payroll management solution for employers. Allowing you to concentrate on what’s important – growing a successful business.
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To attract high-performance staff, it’s essential to know how you measure up to your competitors in the market. It’s important to offer competitive benefits, and these aren’t just limited to monetary ones! We will help you conduct a Compensation & Benefits Analysis to determine exactly how attractive you are to prospective candidates. From there, we will help you develop or adjust your compensation structure to give you an edge in drawing in high-level talent. Ultimately the goal is to attract, retain and motivate high-quality employees while reducing turnover and enhancing your company’s reputation as a highly desirable employer.
• Help you find the right benefits broker for your company's needs. From there, we assist in determining which healthcare and retirement packages are best for your budget and employees' needs.
•Develop a consistent compensation philosophy in line with the organization’s long term objectives.
• Use various methods to make data-based decisions on direct financial, indirect financial, and nonfinancial compensations.
• Assess employees' needs by conducting organizational surveys to find out what motivates and engages employees.
• Determine a raised structure to maintain competitiveness in your market while adhering to budgetary guidelines.
On-site support and engagement with all of the above. We love to strategize and collaborate WITH you!
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In today's workplace, it is important to be clear and transparent about your expectations for your employees.
We will help you develop or update a comprehensive employee handbook aimed at providing clarity for all the "what ifs?" in the workplace. We can also assist in developing policies and procedures, unique to your workplace, which clearly outlines your expectations for your team.
Employee Relations support may also include:
• Workplace investigations
• Workplace safety policies and procedures
• Unemployment, workers' compensation, and disability proceedings assistance
• Termination, furlough, and lay-off assistance
• Collective bargaining support for unionized workplaces
• Provide support to ensure compliance with Labor Laws and regulations