5 Ways Your Startup Can Benefit From Fractional HR Leadership

Fractional HR Leadership is quickly gaining popularity

Jessica Donahue, PHR
6 min readMay 9, 2022
Fractional HR Leader for startups and small businesses
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If you’re building a startup or growing a small to mid-sized business, you’ve likely wrestled with how to access the expertise you need to scale smartly without completely blowing your budget on payroll and benefits costs.

Rather than hiring full-time executives, companies are increasingly turning to fractional leaders. A fractional leader is someone a company engages in a part-time, interim capacity and for a “fraction” of what it would cost to hire a full-time executive. Fractional leaders are experts in their fields and typically have led their respective functions in past positions.

For years, companies have used Fractional talent to lead their accounting or finance functions. But as the world of work evolves at near lightning speed, and workers demand more and more from their employers, a new type of “gig worker” is quickly gaining popularity; the Fractional HR or People Ops Leader.

Here are 5 ways your startup can benefit from Fractional HR leadership.

1. Fractional HR leadership enables you to focus on growth

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