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Why Everyone Would Benefit From Paid Family Leave
In September, my wife Karaka and I will welcome a baby girl into our family. I’m overjoyed. We’re already the parents of a 3-year-old boy, William, who makes me laugh harder and more often than anyone...
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5 Key Sessions You Won’t Want to Miss at #Compference17
This year’s Compference (#Compference17), the modern compensation event for comp professionals, HR professionals and business leaders, is packed with educational sessions and actionable insights....
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Know When to Ask for Help With Your Compensation Project
Every day, PayScale products and services help compensation and HR pros ideate, create, roll out and manage forward-thinking comp plans. We are always on a mission to help companies execute their comp...
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The Role of HR: Central Nervous System for Your Organization
Brian Anderson, BambooHR In biology, the centralized nervous system is one of the hallmarks of an advanced organism. It coordinates essential functions like heartbeat, reflex, and growth so...
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Add PayScale’s Compference 2017 to Your HR Conference Schedule
You have many choices when trying to decide where to best spend your time and money at an HR industry conference. In the HR field, there are several that rise to the top and specialize in fascinating...
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What’s Your Level of Transparency?
Pay conversations surround us every day, and the conversation around pay transparency in particular seems likely to continue to grow. While transparency is deeply rooted in our values and compensation...
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Employers Should Stop Asking for Salary History, But Not for the Reason You...
Several U.S. states or cities have recently introduced, or are considering, a ban on employers inquiring about the salary history of job applicants as part of more extensive equal pay legislation. The...
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Salary History: Don’t Ask, Do Tell?
There are two approaches for making laws around salary history disclosures during a job interview: we can make it illegal for potential employers to ask for salary history, or we can make it illegal...
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Everything You Need to Know About Communicating Pay [New eBook]
Compensation can be a sensitive, and therefore scary, topic. Emotions frequently run high in these conversations, and pay decisions touch every level of the organization: employee, manager, HR/comp...
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Variable Pay: Is There a Difference Between a Bonus and an Incentive?
PayScale’s 2017 Compensation Best Practices Report (CBPR) revealed that nearly three-quarters of organizations give some type of variable pay. At a time when increase budgets are tight, organizations...
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6 Job Candidates You Should Never Hire
Finding the right candidate is a challenge. Top talent is hard to come by – 65 percent of recruiters are reporting a lack of skilled candidates according to a recent survey – and the qualified...
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Use Agile to Make Compensation Changes Manageable
Agile Methodology (or Agile devotees will tell you, NOT a methodology) “helps teams respond to unpredictability through incremental, iterative work cadences and empirical feedback. Agilists propose...
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PayScale Index: U.S. Wages Grow for 8th Consecutive Quarter
Wages in the U.S. grew for the eighth consecutive quarter, according to the newly updated PayScale Index. U.S. wages increased 0.5 percent since Q1 2017 and 2.4 percent since Q2 2016. However, real...
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Remote Work: Fleeting Fad or Enduring Evolution?
Tori Fica, BambooHR The late ’90s and early 2000s brought an armada of trends we’d like to just as soon forget—frosted tips in the hair, ultra-baggy jeans, Furby, walkmans. Let’s not continue. However,...
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The Merit Matrix: Useful Tool or Relic of a Budget-Rich Past?
There are a few interesting conversations going around HR and compensation conferences this year. One has to do with performance management, going “ratingless,” and the best ways to link performance...
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5 Things to Teach Managers About Having Tough Pay Conversations
Conversations about pay can be tough — especially when they involve disagreement or confusion around pay or the reasons for a pay decision or the perception of pay inequity. For these difficult...
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The Official #Compference17 Schedule of Events in ATX
Heads up: This year’s schedule for PayScale’s Compference, the modern compensation event for comp professionals, HR professionals and business leaders, is now posted! Join peers from comp teams, HR...
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Canadian Edition of PayScale’s 2017 Compensation Best Practices Report Has...
The annual Compensation Best Practices Report (CBPR) you know and love now has an all-Canada edition! While the full report is in its eighth year, this is the first year we’re able to detail...
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7 Tips for Moving to a Pay-for-Performance Culture
Companies have seen a bit of a revolution in performance-based pay in the past few years. Most have removed the rank-and-yank style of performance management. Some are removing performance ratings...
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How Compensation Can Help Your Company Innovate
Whether it’s a new streaming digital music service that renders your CDs obsolete or a new SaaS technology vendor that’s upending the status quo at your business, innovation is disrupting our lives...
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