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

Compensation Today

They surveyed more than 1,000 US employers to highlight 2015 seasonal hiring trends, including: 82 percent of hiring managers were planning to hire seasonal workers for this holiday season Average expected pay or holiday employees is $15.37 While seasonal hiring remains steady for 2015, hourly wages are disappointing at best.

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Blueboard, the Employee Rewards and Recognition Platform Shuts Down

Empuls

Blueboard's innovative platform offered personalized experiences and rewards, allowing employers to tailor incentives to individual preferences and interests. Blueboard raised a seed funding round in 2015 and Series A in 2020, according to Crunchbase. Blueboard achieved notable success during its operation.

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Workers gaining clout in salary discussions? Doesn’t look like it

HR Morning

in 2017, although those are smaller than the average increase executives received this year and in 2015. Performance incentives: Holding steady or declining. Exempt employees are projected to receive bonuses that average 11.6% Discretionary bonuses for exempt employees are projected to average 5.6%

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Cafe Classic: Excessively Successful Incentives

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: In this Classic cautionary tale, Jim Brennan (using the 2016 Wells Fargo incentive disaster as his beginning "case in point") reminds us of how easily even reward plans designed with the best intentions can misfire. The only thing worse than an incentive that doesn’t work is one that works all too well.

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Employee Salary Revision, Arrear Processing & Bonus Payments – Detailed run through

Keka HR Blog

Bonus not processed: It happens when there is an incentive, bonus, or monetary addition to the salary for the month because a festival or because a team or employee did an exceptional performance. As per statutory laws, the Government of India mandates organisations to pay yearly bonuses to their employees.

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Signing Bonuses: A Useful Talent Acquisition Tool in Today’s Labor Market?

Astron Solutions

A 2016 WorldatWork survey found that 76% of employers were using signing bonuses to attract key employees. Signing bonuses are described as “a lump sum of money that an employer provides to a prospective employee. It is the employer’s hope that the extra money will be an incentive for the prospect to accept the job offer.

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7 Ways to Keep Call Center Employees Engaged

Achievers

And while monthly bonuses and incentives are a useful strategy for attracting talent, they aren’t always the key to continuous engagement. Wells also spoke at the 2015 Exceptional Women In Publishing conference. . . . . . . The current job market is the employee’s market.