Why We’re Celebrating Black History Month at PayScale
This year, we decided to celebrate Black History Month at PayScale. Black history means so much to me as a Black man. So, I decided to lead a team of PayScale employees to create an event intended to...
View ArticleHow Companies Will Allocate Salary Budgets in 2019
PayScale’s Compensation Best Practices Report (CBPR) reflects trends and attitudes about compensation, benefits, retention and employee engagement across more than 7,000 employers. Today, we released...
View ArticleHow to Cultivate a Strong Pay Brand That Gets You Top Candidates
In the past few years, most HR professionals have become familiar with concept of the employer brand. Your employer brand is, essentially, the face of your company. Your brand is what candidates...
View ArticleMost Organizations Don’t Feel Ready to Share Pay Ranges With Staff
This blog post is an excerpt from PayScale’s 2019 Compensation Best Practices Report. Even if you do all the work to create a fair compensation system, none of it matters if your employees aren’t aware...
View ArticleDeveloping the Best Benefits Package for Your Unique Workforce
Unemployment is down. Recruiting is competitive. Employers are having to work harder than ever before to make themselves stand out. None of this is news to you; in fact, your organization probably...
View ArticleEverything You Need to Know About HR Salaries
This article was originally posted on the Namely blog. With the exception of finance, HR is the department most familiar with employee salaries. It should come as no surprise that HR professionals know...
View ArticleWhy Your Employees Feel Like They’re Not Fairly Paid
It’s well-documented at this point an employee’s perceptions about how they’re paid and rewarded directly impacts their engagement, job satisfaction and employment tenure. Yet, the vast majority of...
View Article5 Mistakes That Damage Your Pay Brand and Cost You Talent
Your pay brand is what employees and candidates believe to be true about your organization’s pay and rewards practices. Rewards include anything deemed valuable by employees including base pay,...
View ArticleWhat Is National Employee Appreciation Day?
As you may (or may not) know, the first Friday in March is National Employee Appreciation Day. It is a day to focus attention and express appreciation of all employees, across all industries. Why It’s...
View Article6 Ways to Help Your Employees Think and Act Like Owners
In my mid-20s, I joined a startup as the 18th employee and took on a role that was a stretch for me on multiple levels. This company moved at lightning speed and I always had too much to do and many...
View ArticleThese Companies Are Tying Executive Bonuses To Diversity Goals
“What gets measured gets improved.” Legendary management consultant Peter Drucker famously said these words 40 years ago and they’re just as relevant today. Corporate America has taken this advice to...
View ArticleThree Hot Tech Trends in HR
In the 2019 Compensation Best Practices Report, we see that investing in HR technology is on the minds of compensation professionals everywhere. How HR Tech Can Help At times, it can feel as if...
View ArticlePractical Guidelines for Pricing Hybrid Jobs
There isn’t a day that goes by in which I am not asked at least once or twice about how to price hybrid jobs. Hybrid roles are common in the workforce today and they’re often created in high-turnover...
View ArticleCan You Nudge Your Employees to Advance Social Progress? Facebook Thinks So
Employee bonuses are a mainstay in America’s corporate landscape. In many cases, decision-makers believe their bonus programs encourage employees to behave in ways more closely aligned to the company’s...
View ArticleWhy Your Company Should Invest In Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
This blog post was originally published by Namely. Building a diverse and inclusive organization starts with creating a culture that embraces and celebrates people’s differences. Investing in employee...
View ArticleWill Salaried Workers See Daily Pay?
Does anyone really know why a paycheck every two weeks is standard? Today, it seems arbitrary, but there was once a place for it, when payroll was entirely paper-based and required time to process....
View ArticleHow to Scale a Team: Vision, Values and Culture
This article was originally published on the BambooHR blog by Brian Anderson. It’s one thing to recognize that your organization needs to do more—get more clients, spend more advertising dollars, fix...
View ArticleWill Salaried Workers See Daily Pay?
Does anyone really know why a paycheck every two weeks is standard? Today, it seems arbitrary, but there was once a place for it, when payroll was entirely paper-based and required time to process....
View Article5 Things You Can Learn From Marketing to Improve Employee Engagement
I was catching up on the latest HR news on TLNT, and this headline jumped out at me: “Marketing Can Teach You How to Improve Engagement.” I clicked through to read the article. I was really excited to...
View ArticleWhy Women Are More Likely to Feel They Are Underpaid
It’s well-documented at this point that an employee’s perceptions about how they’re paid and rewarded directly impact their engagement, job satisfaction and employment tenure. Yet, the vast majority of...
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