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Cafe Classic: Performance Pay for Gig Workers?

Compensation Cafe

Bureau of Labor Statistics surveyed the contingent workforce was in 2005! (a On Mechanical Turk, most microtasks are paid at a fixed rate; if you complete the task successfully, you earn a few cents. Rubric-based quality bonus: Quality bonuses can be tricky. is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Cornell University.

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Performance Pay for Gig Workers?

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: If you're interested in learning more about the gig economy, you can join Cafe contributor Stephanie Thomas, Cornell ILR Professor Susanne Bruyere and Former US Deputy Secretary of Labor Seth Harris for a livestream event from eCornell today at 12 PM ET or on-demand any time. Free with access code HRTW17: [link] bit.ly/2wXI5zW.

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Working Overtime

True Faith HR

My dad was a professor of psychology for 35+ years at Michigan State University. My mom was a Grammy-award winning choir director who taught at all levels of education. But, let''s look at what compensation public sector school teachers do and do not receive. At best, there will be negotiated salary increases from year to year.

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Where Have All the Raises Gone?

Compensation Cafe

Last month The New York Times ran an article bemoaning the loss of pay raises in favor of one-time bonuses and non-monetary rewards. Aon Hewitt did not even start tracking short-term rewards and bonuses — known as variable compensation — until 1988, when they accounted for an average of 3.9 Follow Derek on Twitter at @DerekIrvine.

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Finding a human capital niche: Haier’s horse race

Strategic HCM

Under the contract labor system policy, employees are regularly evaluated and classified by performances, and the managerial personnel do not work at the same position permanently but rotate regularly in a fixed period. Evans and Pucik note ‘there’s no philosophy of once you’re in, you’re in at Haier’.

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Dr John Cascone On How We Need To Adjust To The Future Of Work

Thrive Global

Dr. John Cascone has been a Senior Vice President at FlexHR since 2005. They are considering other options such as working from home, opportunities to develop new skills, seeking better paying jobs or not working at all. By email at jcascone@flexhr.com or by cell phone 404 372 9852.

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The (Surprising) Facts About Motivation

Kazoo

It’s no accident that the largest club at Harvard Business School is The Social Enterprise Club. The default style management has used to motivate their employees is the stick and carrot incentive. For starters, if the incentive isn’t compelling it doesn’t work. Not at all. What’s the best way to design jobs?