1 day ago by Becky Regan

It used to be that the public sector couldn't compete with the private sector in terms of paying their employees. However, that's not the case anymore according to a recent USA Today article "For Feds, More Get 6-Figure Salary." Now, the best advise for job seekers appears to be to go to work for th ...

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6 days ago by Chuck Csizmar

In recent months I have dealt with several US clients who faced the challenge overseas of high employee turnover coupled with a difficulty in recruiting qualified staff. These companies were at a loss to understand the cause of their problems, as each felt that they were already paying out a great d ...

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10 days ago by Becky Regan

Last year at this time, I wrote an article forecasting my "top 3" predictions for HR and total rewards professionals in 2009. With only a few weeks left in the year, now's a good time to revisit those predictions to see how accurate I was, and look forward to 2010 with my "top 4" predictions for the ...

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15 days ago by Ann Bares

Don't waste your money hiring high performers. That's right. So says Mike Figliudo at the thoughtLEADER LLC blog. And he makes some sound points about the strategy of hiring "stars"; mainly that we often hire them for all the wrong reasons, without thinking beyond our immediate needs. From Mike's po ...

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17 days ago by Laura Schroeder

I do a lot of math in my head and once amused myself by estimating the per pound cost of a two hour meeting I attended to collaborate on some topic. There were twenty-two knowledge workers in the room and I decided that on average they earned about $120K, weighed 155 lbs and worked about 50 hours a ...

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22 days ago by Becky Regan

According to a recently released report from Hewitt Associates , a global human resources consulting and outsourcing firm, we can be thankful that most employers are "holding steady" on 2010's salary increases and bonus payouts. In this survey released on November 19th, 555 large employers found tha ...

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28 days ago by Darcy Dees

I’ve seen several articles recently listing alternatives to pay raises. Some of these articles have some good ideas for how we should treat our employees at all times, and some of the articles have some ideas that should never be used. But they all miss the point; you can’t replace a pay raise. None ...

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30 days ago by Chuck Csizmar

It is human nature to look for simple solutions to perplexing problems. Simple avoids confusion, keeps you "on message" and helps create greater employee awareness and appreciation of programs and policies. However, when you are dealing with the diversity and complexity of international compensation ...

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31 days ago by Ann Bares

If recent research is right and prevalence is any indicator, merit pay is still riding high ... for now. The question is, for how long? Hewitt Associates has an outstanding presentation online from its recent webcast series (you can also replay the webcast in its entirety here) assessing the afterma ...

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55 days ago by Ann Bares

I picked up an interesting fact during a recent dive into WorldatWork's 2009/10 Salary Budget Survey: General increases have experienced a surge in popularity in 2009, growing in prevalence by more than 44% over 2008 among surveyed employers. Recent conversations with a few clients as well as commen ...

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