Product Heroes: Q & A With Chris Highfield, Product Leader For MarketPay
Here at PayScale, we believe that when organizations and their employees understand the right pay for every position and can effectively communicate about compensation, both parties thrive. That’s why...
View ArticleCompensation Best Practices: What Do Top Performers Do Differently?
In our latest Compensation Best Practices Report, which gathered responses from 7,100 respondents on their pay practices, we took a look at what really sets top performers apart. For this report, we...
View ArticleHidden Ways to Empower Employees and Retain Top Talent
Originally written by Rob de Luca for BambooHR. For managers, one of the biggest challenges is figuring out how to make team members stick around and keep performing at their peak. Fat salaries and...
View Article7 Reasons to Prioritize Employer Branding This Year
Originally written by Rachel Fenton for Namely. We’ve all heard the “employer branding” buzzword. But what does it actually mean? While a company’s overall brand relates to the way organizations are...
View ArticleEmployee Appreciation Day: 7 Creative Ways to Appreciate Your Employees
Promotions, raises and being named “Employee of the Month” are all tried-and-true ways to reward outstanding employee performance. And while they’re usually well-received, in today’s often imaginative...
View Article6 Tips for Building a Culture That Removes the Taboo From Comp Conversations
A few weeks ago, I spoke on a PayScale webinar with Rusty Lindquist from BambooHR called “Tough Comp Conversations: A Guide For Doing Them Right.” One of the questions an attendee asked jumped out at...
View ArticleCompference18 Location and Hotel Revealed
With Compference17 on the horizon, we’re excited to officially announce the Compference venue location and hotel details for the world’s best compensation event. So ask yourself, what’s better than...
View ArticleHR Tech Trend: More HR and Comp Pros Are Ditching Spreadsheets In 2018
For the last couple of years on our Compensation Best Practices survey, we’ve asked HR and Comp professionals about the tools they use to manage their pay processes. In 2018, when it comes to comp...
View ArticleWhat NASA Can Teach Us About Hiring
Written by Julie Labrie for Workopolis. As NASA hopes to send a crew of astronauts to Mars by 2030, the space agency has delved deeply into the study of team dynamics. Through that process it has...
View ArticleSome UK Companies Acknowledge Their Gender Pay Gap, But Say It’s Justified
The gender pay gap has been under the media spotlight for a number of years. If you haven’t been paying much attention to this topic, now is the time to do so, because pay equity laws are about to...
View Article28 Percent of Orgs Are Taking Pay Equity Seriously This International Women’s...
It’s been over 100 years since the first International Women’s Day was observed in America. Yet, the gender pay gap still exists in the U.S. — women earn 2.4 percent less than men when controlling for...
View ArticleWant to Build a Great Employer Brand? Focus on Your Pay Brand First
A little while ago, I read the article “7 Reasons to Prioritize Employer Branding This Year” and I thought it did a great job explaining why HR leaders should be intentional in crafting their employer...
View ArticlePayScale’s New Hero Awards Recognize Work Cultures Employees Love
In a world where the talent market is tight, a world where employees have many choices as to where they commit their time and talents, it can be incredibly difficult for organizations to maintain a...
View ArticleMost Orgs Don’t Trust Their Managers to Talk Comp With Employees
Whether you’re a business leader or an HR professional, you know that the employee experience relies heavily on managers. You can’t create a top-notch employee experience without having stellar...
View ArticleMore Than Perks, Giving Employees What They Truly Need
Do trivial and unusual perks truly benefit employees? Or do they just ensure they never leave the office? We’ve all heard that it’s an employee’s market. With unemployment at a 17-year low of 4.1...
View Article#Compference18 Keynotes Announced: Kim Scott, Mike Metzger and More.
If you’ve attended Compference, you already know that PayScale sets a high bar when it comes to keynote speakers. Our very first Compference in Seattle featured Shankar Vendantam. Last year in Austin...
View ArticleThe Dangerous Relationship Between Gender Bias and Performance Reviews
This post is written by Kelsie Davis and was first published on the BambooHR Blog. Meet José and Sally. They do the same work, have the same amount of experience, report to the same manager and,...
View ArticleHow PayScale Products Help Organizations Bring Pay Forward
At this point, we’re seeing some pretty big shifts in how organizations approach compensation. In this post, we’ll take a look at these trends, show you how they inform our product strategy, and...
View ArticleHow to Deliver Critical Feedback That Employees Truly Hear
If you’re giving an employee hard feedback in the form of a compliment sandwich, your message may not be received the way you intended. The basics of a compliment sandwich: start with a positive...
View Article5 Ways HR Can Build A Culture Of Employee Trust
Originally written by Rachel Bolsu for Namely. It’s no secret that employees tend to have a negative perception of HR. It can be hard to tell whose interests HR puts first: those of the company or the...
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