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Blueboard, the Employee Rewards and Recognition Platform Shuts Down

Empuls

Founded in 2014, the company has garnered a reputation for its innovative approach to recognizing and rewarding employees. Blueboard's innovative platform offered personalized experiences and rewards, allowing employers to tailor incentives to individual preferences and interests. Talk to our experts today.

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Seasonal Hiring Steady for 2015 Holiday Season, but is Pay Spiraling Downward?

Compensation Today

Taylor, PHR, SHRM-CP, PayScale Senior Blogger This time of year always sees an increase in hiring additional people to cover the busy holiday season, at least on a temporary basis. You’ll note that from this survey, seasonal hourly pay is down significantly from 2014, and for a number of reasons. per hour, which is down from $17.50

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Do Your Incentive Plans Motivate Choking?

Compensation Cafe

Could it be that we are designing and communicating incentives for our highest performance all wrong? This study specifically looked at the impact of incentives on motor and neurological performance in high-pressure situations. The real question should be what this may mean for future incentive plan design.

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FLSA: The song (no longer) remains the same…

i4cp

The back story seems simple… In March 2014, President Obama signed a memorandum to the Department of Labor (DOL) to review and update the longstanding FLSA regulations. The DOL has stated that it “is not considering expanding the salary level test calculation to include discretionary bonuses.” Salary changes are not the only concern.

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Time for HR’s 2014 Performance Appraisal

HR Daily Advisor

It’s a good time to reflect on your accomplishments of 2014. How close are you now to where you thought you’d be on January 1, 2014? If any portion of wages (or bonuses) is tied to employee performance ratings, the employees can suffer economic harm from inaccurate ratings. Loss of incentive. Where is the incentive?

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Compensation Strategy and Culture: 3 Steps to Create Alignment

Analytics in HR

You can have excellent recruitment marketing strategies, but at the end of the day, to attract the talent your organization needs, you need to be able to offer total rewards packages that are both competitive and aligned with your internal policies and budgeting. Image adopted from Madhani (2014). Here are a few examples.

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How to Manage the B-Team

Cornerstone On Demand

In mid-August, a New York Times article about Amazon featured heated accounts from former employees describing a workplace that rewards top performers with praise and bonuses, while punishing those who can't — or won't — commit to 85-hour work weeks and 24/7 availability. Communicate Expectations—on Both Sides.