Strategic HR doesn't start at 100 employees. It starts at 10.
3 days ago
2 min read
Most Philippine SMEs and scale-ups don't have an HR problem. They have an HR access problem.
The market's default answer is binary: hire a full-time HR Manager (₱40K–₱80K/month, plus statutory costs, plus ramp time) — or run compliance on hope and a Google Doc template.
Neither is a strategy. Both are expensive, just on different timelines.
Here's what a 10-person company actually needs:
SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG remittance accuracy (RA 11199, RA 7875, RA 9679)
13th month pay computed correctly under PD 851
Employment contracts that hold up under Labor Code Arts. 294–299
A documented, audit-ready paper trail — not verbal policy
None of that requires a full-time headcount. It requires the right hours from the right practitioner.
That's fractional HR.
Aleph's Fractional HR service gives you access to our network of seasoned, SHRM-credentialed and legally-grounded HR professionals — engaged at the scope and hours your business actually needs, not the headcount a job description assumes you need.
Not all HR practitioners are created equal. The market is full of people who can talk policy. Fewer can produce the documentation that survives a DOLE inspection, a labor complaint, or a compliance audit.
Our network is built on the latter. Vetted. Experienced. Retrievable work product — not narrative.
What you get:
✅ Statutory compliance managed by practitioners who cite the law, not just quote it
✅ Documentation built to withstand scrutiny — contracts, COEs, policy manuals
✅ Senior-level HR judgment without senior full-time overhead
✅ Scalable engagement — grows with headcount, doesn't lock you into it early
Quality HR guidance shouldn't be a cost center you defer until you're "big enough" to justify it. By the time most companies feel that pain, the undocumented exposure is already sitting in a file somewhere, waiting to become a problem.
Fractional HR isn't a smaller version of the real thing. It's the right-sized version of the real thing.
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