Slashies Are Coming. Here’s What You Need To Know About The Employee Of The...
Whether you like it or not, traditional job titles are quickly becoming a thing of the past. Employees no longer feel the need to attach themselves to a common job title. Historically, we’ve seen the...
View ArticleWhich Compensation Structure Is Right for Your Company?
Compensation structures continue to evolve, and they usually do so to help organizations keep current with both market and workforce trends. Some may wonder what compensation structures are. Loosely,...
View ArticleHow HR Can Welcome Moms After Maternity Leave
Having a baby, especially your first one, can be scary. Add in the stress of a day-to-day job, the questions about your career — Can I still be on the fast track after I have the baby? How do I do all...
View ArticleHow Being a New Product Manager Is Like Becoming a Mom
In recent reflection on my experience building and releasing a product, PayScale Crew, I realized that there are many parallels between becoming a new mom and starting in the role of a new product...
View ArticleCompensation Trends: Disruption in Action at the 2017 Total Rewards Show
The keynote address at this year’s WorldatWork 2017 Total Rewards show was by Peter Sheahan, author of Matter: Move Beyond the Competition, Create More Value, and Become the Obvious Choice. Sheahan...
View ArticleThe Walmart Effect: Can Raising Salaries Increase Productivity?
By Lauren Pelley, Workopolis It’s a winning combination every company wants: Productive staff and happy customers. Could higher salaries be the ticket to both? That could be what happened at Walmart,...
View ArticleMeeting Your Employees Where They Are When It Comes to Pay Transparency
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the Gainsight Pulse Customer Success Conference in Oakland. Among discussion of customer success best practices and trends, there were also deep-dive sessions...
View ArticleHow to Get Your Boss to Approve Your #Compference17 Expense
Compference 2017 is a steal of a deal. PayScale’s second annual Compference, the modern compensation event for comp professionals, HR professionals and business leaders, includes keynotes from major...
View ArticleHow to Make Sure They Accept Your Job Offer
Paige Magarrey, Workopolis You crafted an amazing job posting. You screened through your qualified candidates. You spent time and money carefully selecting your next star employee. But don’t start...
View ArticleBuilding a Compensation Plan: An Exercise in Collaboration
Building a compensation plan from scratch can be intimidating if you don’t know where to start. In fact, even if you do know where to start, the process can be pretty daunting. At PayScale, we’ve been...
View ArticleComp Strategy for Small Businesses: 2017 Compensation Best Practices
Only 29 percent of small businesses have a compensation strategy, according to data collected for PayScale’s Compensation Best Practices Report, compared with 37 percent of all organizations — despite...
View ArticleThe Ripple Effect of a Pay Strategy Change
Did we catch you in beautiful Snowbird, Utah last month? PayScale was there for The Elevate Summit, BambooHR’s first ever user conference, and we know many of you were too. There were tons of great...
View Article5 Simple Ways to Drastically Improve Your Employer Brand
Jared Lindzon, Workopolis No matter your company’s size or industry, employers today are up against greater odds than ever before when it comes to hiring the best talent. To start, employees are now...
View ArticleEmployee Rewards: From Most Popular to Most Creative
Today’s employees have some unique advantages that employees of the past didn’t have. For one thing, the U.S. economy is relatively stable, and the unemployment rate continues to decline steadily...
View ArticleTwo Ways to Improve Retention: From Flight Risk Jobs to Business Goals
We talk a lot about uncertainty, especially when it comes to keeping, motivating, rewarding, and attracting an increasingly mobile workforce. PayScale’s 2017 Compensation Best Practices Report found...
View ArticleRecognizing People: A Recap of the WorkHuman Conference
Sometimes you come home from an industry conference having learned a new thing or two, sometimes you meet new connections in the industry, sometimes you come back with a to-do list of ways to improve...
View Article3 Tricks to Find Out If an Applicant Is the Right Fit
Ange Friesen, Workopolis Most of us have seen the damage a bad hire can do. It’s not pretty, and it can usually be avoided, if the hiring manager knows what to ask. This is not a matter of finding “the...
View ArticleMy Love-Hate Relationship With Job Descriptions
I used to have a truly unreasonable hatred for writing job descriptions. It was so unreasonable that the complaining and avoidance tactics I used were legendary. There was a day in my career that I...
View ArticlePayScale Is Headed to #SHRM17 Conference. See You There?
Next week, June 18 – 21, the PayScale crew is off to New Orleans for SHRM17 Annual Conference and Exposition. We’re excited – we love the chance to talk with customers and future customers. Our theme...
View ArticleShould You Attend #Compference17? Here’s What Your Peers Are Saying
PayScale’s annual event, Compference – the modern compensation event for comp professionals, HR professionals and business leaders, will be here before you know it. Our two-day conference is October...
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