Senior HR leadership, embedded in your business.
Get the HR leadership, expertise, and capacity your business needs, without adding a full-time senior hire.
HR leadership sized for every stage of business growth.
Most growing companies reach a point where HR needs more than an owner or office manager can give it, but a full-time senior hire doesn't make sense yet.
Fractional HR fills that gap. You get someone who has led HR before, with the time and cost matched to where your business is today.
Because we stay with you over time, we get to know your leaders, your people and how things really work. That lets us handle what comes up today, see what's coming and build what the business will need next. As your priorities shift, from hiring to performance to planning for growth, our focus shifts with them.
The Right Level of Partnership
Every level gives you a dedicated senior HR partner. What changes is how much we take on.
Guide
An HR expert in your corner
You bring us questions and employee situations as they come up, and we help you handle them well.
✓ Monthly check-ins
✓ HR advice by phone or email
✓ Help with employee issues
✓ Policies and handbook kept current
Most Chosen
Build
An HR lead working alongside you
Each quarter we agree on your top people priorities, then build and roll them out with you.
Everything in Guide, plus:
✓ Check-ins every two weeks
✓ Quarterly people projects
✓ Hiring, onboarding and performance
✓ Manager support and coaching
Lead
A part-time Head of HR
We run your HR function and sit with your leadership team from strategy to the day-to-day.
Everything in Build, plus:
✓ Weekly check-ins and leadership meetings
✓ People strategy and planning
✓ Org structure and compensation
✓ Building your HR function
Need something more lightweight or more involved? We’ll shape support around what you need.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Fractional HR is an ongoing partnership. We become an extension of your team and take responsibility for a range of people priorities as they evolve. HR Consulting is better suited to a defined challenge or project with a clearer beginning and end.
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No. An interim leader fills a full-time seat for a set period. Fractional HR gives you senior HR leadership part-time and on an ongoing basis, so the support stays with you and grows as your business does.
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Not quite. Traditional outsourced HR is often built to provide transactional support or respond to HR needs as they come up. Our fractional model is built around a closer relationship. We work directly with your leaders, understand the context behind decisions and take ownership of moving your people priorities forward.
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We’ll recommend the right level based on your team, your existing HR resources, your current priorities and how much ownership you need from us. As your organization evolves, the level of support can evolve with it.
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Yes. You can move between tiers as your priorities shift, and we review the fit with you regularly so your support matches what the business needs.
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We’re thoughtful about every client match. Your dedicated Origami HR partner is chosen for the experience, strengths and working style that best fit your organization and your leaders. They become a consistent part of your team, with the perspective and expertise of the broader Origami HR team behind them.
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Absolutely. In some organizations we serve as the primary HR function. In others, we provide senior leadership, extra capacity or specialized expertise alongside an existing HR team. We shape the relationship around what you already have.
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Each level is a set monthly fee, scoped to your needs during your intro call. Partnerships start with a six-month commitment, which gives us the time to get to know your business and make real progress.