It all started with a waste of time.

JS Services CEO Jack Schneider knew how to run successful businesses. After all, he’d run several of them. Still, one thing about running a business really bothered him: Doing payroll.

It’s not that he disliked paying employees and the paperwork that came along with it – tax forms, tax deposits and tax deadlines, plus keeping up with changes in mandated benefits. In fact, he was pretty darn good at it! It just that every minute he spent pushing those papers around was a minute he wasn’t building the business. To Jack, that just didn’t seem right.

And that was just the taxes. He also had to deal with workers comp. TDI, health insurance and more. All necessary in running a business, yet in terms of his productivity, was an entire waste of time. What to do, what to do?

Jack's big move.

In 1982, changes in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) allowed “Employee Leasing” companies in Hawaii to open their doors. Since Jack was good at all the paperwork, while most employers hated it, he decided to act. On April 1st, (no fooling!) 1982 Jack Schneider opened his own doors as JS Services, a DBA, making it one the first professional employment organizations in Hawaii.

Quick facts:

• When JS Services opened there were only 40 Employee Leasing Companies in the country. Today there are thousands!
• Jack incorporated JS Services in 1985
• JS Services began in a warehouse on Waimanu St., After a couple of moves and one major fire, JS Services now resides in its own building – the JS Services Building at 3160 Waialae Ave.