Your people are your greatest asset, and they deserve a people function built with precision.
Comprehensive HR support without the full-time overhead.
I deliver fractional HR expertise to growing and well-established organizations, tailored to the scope and stage of each client. Services span people strategy, compliance, and total rewards through day-to-day HR administration and staff retreat planning, supporting organizations without a dedicated HR function as well as lean HR teams in need of additional capacity.
HR support built for distributed workforces.
Multi-state compliance
Policies, payroll, and tax compliance across most U.S. states, wherever your employees live.
Distributed onboarding
Consistent hiring, onboarding, and offboarding for employees in any location.
Integrated with your systems
Support delivered within the platforms your team already uses, including Slack, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and your HRIS.
Crystal Konohia, MPA, SHRM-SCP
As Principal of Precise HR Operations LLC, I bring more than 15 years of experience across the full scope of people operations, from leading HR departments to managing the administrative functions that keep organizations running efficiently. I partner with growing and well-established organizations alike, providing strategic, operational, or administrative support as each engagement requires.
My work is grounded in the SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) credential and a Master of Public Administration with a concentration in Human Resources Management. I bring particular depth in multi-state compliance, with experience in most U.S. states, including California, Illinois, New York, and Washington, ensuring policies, payroll, and benefits meet requirements wherever my clients' employees reside.
Flexible engagement models, scaled to your organization.
Engagements can begin with a single project or extend to ongoing HR support, and can be adjusted as your needs evolve.
Monthly Retainer
Ongoing fractional HR support
A dedicated allocation of hours or days each month, integrated with your team.
Project-Based
Defined scope, defined outcome
A handbook overhaul, benefits renewal, hiring sprint, staff retreat, or DEIB initiative.
Hourly Support
As-needed expertise
Guidance on employee relations, terminations, administrative overflow, and time-sensitive questions.
Comprehensive support across the employee lifecycle.
Select the services your organization needs. Each area reflects hands-on experience, from setting strategy to executing day-to-day operations, across nonprofit, for-profit, political, and philanthropic organizations and associations.
Talent & Employee Lifecycle
- Full-cycle recruitment and talent acquisition
- Job description creation and audits
- Background screening and pre-employment checks
- Onboarding, offboarding, and termination support
- Performance management and review cycles
- Succession planning for key roles
Total Rewards
- Benefits negotiation, broker and carrier management, and annual renewals
- Open enrollment planning, communication, and administration
- Benefits enrollment audits and payroll deduction reconciliation
- COBRA administration and leave of absence coordination
- Retirement plan administration, transition, and implementation
- Compensation benchmarking and salary band development
- PTO and leave policy design
Compliance
- Form I-9 and E-Verify review and audits
- New state registration for employer payroll taxes and employee withholding
- Multi-state tax compliance
- Employee classification reviews: exempt vs. non-exempt, employee vs. contractor
- State and local leave, pay transparency, and wage law compliance
- Required labor law posters and employee notices
- Annual filings, including EEO-1 and ACA reporting
- Compliance and risk management
HR Operations & Administration
- Day-to-day HR administrative support
- Employee records, personnel files, and HRIS upkeep
- Policy, SOP, and employee handbook creation, implementation, and revision
- Payroll support and HR process optimization
- HRIS and ATS selection, transition, and implementation
- Managed service IT oversight
Employee Relations & HR Partnership
- Day-to-day HRBP support for leaders and managers
- Employee relations, investigations, and mediation
- Conflict resolution and coaching through sensitive conversations
- Board liaison and executive-level support
Culture, Retreats & Events
- Staff retreat planning and logistics, including travel booking
- Team events and gatherings
- DEIB strategy, programming, and implementation
- People analytics that turn HR data into decisions
Your people are your greatest asset, and they deserve a people function built with precision.
Let's Work
Availability is based on current client load. Now booking clients for 2027.