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Part III - Where Should We Take Employee Rewards in the Future?

Compensation Cafe

Since the recession of 2001, business leaders have made cost control their primary goal for rewards. Organizations would be more effective and employees would be more engaged if at least half of benefits dollars were converted into cash, especially incentive opportunities. Employee incentives fit that bill. . Why fight this?

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How Agile Leadership Is Going To Change Your Business

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The agile movement first began in 2001 within software development. Such leaders give employees the care they need to meet their work and personal goals. Traditional leaders motivate others by extrinsic incentives. Under traditional leadership, information flows up the hierarchy through reports and meetings.

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Part I - Malaise in the Employee Rewards: What’s Going On?

Compensation Cafe

Sales compensation has always been a different beast: it has different buyers and economic cycles than employee rewards, and sales incentives constantly evolve to meet new business needs. For contrast, let’s remember what I consider to be the Golden Age for employee rewards: the late 1980s to about 2001.

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How to Build Employee Connection and 12 Ways to Build One

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In July 2001, Larry Page, co-founder of Google, fired all of Google's project managers. This platform provides a forum where employees can come together for fitness challenges, share their progress, and compete in a gamified leaderboard. Let us understand this better with the following example.

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Leading Vendors Announce Quizzify Partnerships to Satisfy Forthcoming Wellness Incentive Rules

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The ruling upends the wellness industry by proscribing “voluntary” incentives for screenings and health risk assessments as of January 2019. By adding Quizzify as a screening alternative, partner vendors avoid the pending upheaval, and none of their customers will have to reconfigure their program incentives or penalties.