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Parental Leave in San Francisco: Another Pay-Related Reason to Hire Baby Boomers
San Francisco just became the first city in the US to ensure 100% paid leave for new parents. This covers...
Speed, Velocity and Acceleration in Pay
I was reading a Facebook message a parent posted about their kid’s physics homework and it resonated as a reminder...
Three Ways Average Companies Pay Their Employees
I just watched a great TED talk from a few years ago. In it, Todd Rose discusses the “average” in...
Paying Everyone Equally is a Terrible Idea
Many of you may have read about Gravity Payments, the company in Seattle, Washington with the magnanimous CEO who decided...
5 Lessons for a Compensation Department of None
Over the last few years, we have seen a rise in attention to the all too common, “HR Department of...
There are Only Two Pay Philosophies
We, the compensation professionals of planet earth, work hard to define the whys and hows of our pay programs. We...
Silence Isn’t Golden
I hope your employees aren’t complaining about your compensation programs. If they are complaining out loud, then the problem has...
The Secret ALL GREAT Companies Know About Pay
I generally write about incentive compensation, executive compensation and performance issues, but today’s post is written from a very different...
A Lack of Company Enthusiasm Doesn’t Mean a Lack of Job Passion
I was at a sold-out sporting event recently. The sport, as it turns out, doesn’t matter. Neither does the team....