What is AI’s Role in Compensation?
Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to computer systems that can perform tasks typically requiring human intelligence, such as understanding natural language, recognizing patterns, making...
Salary.com Webinar: 4 Ways to Avoid Painful Turnover in 2024
Join Salary.com's VP of Comp Management, Jamie Davis, and Solutions Consultant, Alden Aikins, for the webinar, 4 Ways to Avoid Painful Turnover in 2024, where we dive into the critical...
Getting your managers in the right compensation mindset
An HR pro I know said, “The task is easy, it’s the people that are difficult.” In the case of compensation, the difficult people are probably managers who don’t spend much time thinking about...
How Reward Can Make Good Use of The People Analytics Team
If you’ve been in the HR space these past few years, you’ve probably heard about the industry’s new golden calf: people analytics, the data-driven method of studying people processes, functions, and...
The Skilled Compensation Shortage No One Is Talking About
I often encounter individuals eager to embark on a career in Human Resources (HR). Regrettably, very few express a desire to specialize in compensation. This lack of interest makes it challenging...
Compensation Pros Should Become Experts in Measuring Performance
Let me know if I’m being presumptuous, but it seems to me that compensation pros get stuck doing an awful lot of repetitive manual tasks. The touted solution to such toil is usually this: use a...
Nobody’s Perfect: What to Compromise When Choosing an HR Software Solution
As companies evolve, they follow a natural inclination to acquire new technologies that can streamline their processes and support organizational growth. At the heart of these technological...
Compensation Data and The HR Suite: Understanding Data Management in HR Software Solutions
Compensation planners know that every decision made about incentive programs, benefits packages, variable pay structures, and stock option compensation is informed by one essential asset: data. Lots...
Why Compensation Planning Needs Comprehensive Service
Important Considerations When Choosing a Compensation Module One thing remains true in the marketplace of services: people don’t remember how crucial customer service is until they receive a...
Research Shows Top Earners Have Far Fewer Remote Work Options
COMP NEWS - While companies have begun signaling their intent to back off of unpopular return-to-office policies, they're dead set on keeping their top earners in the office, according to new research. Top-paying jobs are not the only ones seeing a decline in flexible...
CEOs Are Testing Their Pay Limits, Even When Their Companies Falter
COMP NEWS - Companies are pushing pay packages higher for their CEOs, even as some of their companies falter under their leadership. It’s not just Tesla (TSLA) and Elon Musk: Other companies are also pushing pay packages higher. Tesla stockholders will have a...
Low Salaries Make Long-Term Care Providers Hard To Come By
COMP NEWS - The healthcare industry is struggling to find long-term healthcare providers. The core issue, many workers say, is that their pay is far too low for the responsibilities, stresses, and risks of the job. The industry has dealt with labor shortages and high...
Hourly workers in California report high levels of wage theft, new survey finds
COMP NEWS - A new survey indicates that more than two-fifths of hourly workers in California have reported experiencing serious labor law violations such as wage theft. 41% of hourly workers in California said they experienced at least one serious labor law violation,...
Half of Amazon Workers Say They Struggle to Afford Food or Rent
COMP NEWS - A recent survey has indicated that over half of Amazon workers struggle to afford food or rent on the wages they receive from one of the largest, most profitable companies in the world. Five years after Amazon.com Inc. raised wages to $15 an hour, half of...
Connecticut Law Could Clash With On-Demand Pay Initiatives
COMP NEWS - An existing Connecticut law could clash with employer attempts to provide "on-demand" pay - a service where workers receive early compensation in exchange for a payroll deduction. EWA, also known as on-demand pay or daily pay, is a way to allow workers to...
LEGO Says Salaried Employee Bonuses Hinge on Emission Reduction Performance
COMP NEWS - LEGO has announced that performance-related bonuses for its salaried employees will be tied to the company's emission reduction performance. In an announcement shared on social media, the company said the ties to performance-related bonuses will keep the...
Family-Friendly Benefits Help Companies Find Top Talent
COMP NEWS - As employers search for new ways to attract and retain top talent, companies are finding success by offering family-friendly benefits and shrinking away from aggressive RTO policies. While employee benefits matter, policies play a big role, too. Despite...
Singapore Airlines Gives Employee Bonuses Worth 8 Months of Salary
COMP NEWS - Singapore Airlines is handing out massive annual bonuses to its employees this year amounting to eight months' worth of salary. Employees at Singapore Airlines are set to get a major payout when their annual bonus hits this year. The airline plans...
Employees are Winning the Battle Against RTO
COMP NEWS - More than half of U.S. employers have begun enforcing return-to-office mandates, but a survey shows that a mere 4% of U.S. CEOs intend to enforce a full-time return to office following extreme backlash and resignations from resistant talent. In the past...
50% of Companies Offering “Good Coffee” to Encourage Return To Office
COMP NEWS - A staggering 50% of employers think that "good coffee" will help them draw reluctant workers back into the office, according to a new survey. Companies view decent coffee as a top amenity in encouraging workers back to the office. The U.S. market still...
Gen Z Overwhelmingly Wants a Four-Day Workweek
COMP NEWS - Gen Z is saying it loud and proud - they believe a four-day workweek will help them be more productive workers. Younger workers said they do not need a 40-hour working week and would be more productive within four days of labor. Millennials and Gen...
Study Warns More People Plan to Quit Their Job Now Than During The Great Resignation
COMP NEWS - A new joint study by Microsoft and LinkedIn indicates that nearly half of workers want to quit their job in the next year, a figure even higher than surveyed during 2021's Great Resignation period. The cost of living has spiraled, the threat of layoffs...
Top Tech Talent Quit Their Jobs Instead of Returning to the Office
COMP NEWS - Companies who enforced a return-to-office mandate usually lose senior employees in the immediate aftermath, according to new data from a case study by researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan. Return-to-office mandates at...
