employees are eligible for bonuses four times a year, with biannual salary reviews. It also offers its full-time employees an average of 350 hours of training every year and has a low 13% full-time staff turnover rate.”. High turnover to contend with? MORE

All the time and money you spent hiring, training and growing your people suddenly becomes a gift to your competition. These metrics will help you give your employees clear direction and ensure their work stays on track. Performance bonuses are common in professional sports. MORE

Your employees may work overtime hours without approval or without pay , feel burdened or burned out, see the distribution of overtime as unfair or wish for other ways to earn a bonus. Do your employees need more training? MORE

How much of the total compensation on offer will be guaranteed income versus performance-based bonuses or incentives? Other metrics?). Is your company bringing a new executive on board sometime soon? How do you decide the appropriate level of compensation? MORE

All the time and money you spent hiring, training and growing your people suddenly becomes a gift to your competition. These metrics will help you give your employees clear direction and ensure their work stays on track. Consider productivity-based metrics that focus on your employees’ ability to meet deadlines. Some companies are offering unhappy employees a “pay-to-quit” bonus. This simple “perk” can be a big incentive for your employees to stay. MORE

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) suspected they were on their last legs back in 2015 before a number of sources officially called time of death earlier this year. If you’re a small or midsize business (SMB) that does annual performance reviews, I have some terrible news. MORE

Not just the amount, but the payout period, who is eligible for what, the metrics the employee is measured against, and so forth. Typical variable pay includes incentives, bonuses, commission, and profit-sharing. Download the free 2015 PayScale Compensation Best Practices Report. MORE

Your employees may work overtime hours without approval or without pay , feel burdened or burned out, see the distribution of overtime as unfair or wish for other ways to earn a bonus. Do your employees need more training? Is overtime being used as an incentive or bonus without strategic oversight? It could also add clarity to a decision to invest in employee training , new equipment or another productivity-boosting technology. MORE

Fast forward to 2015, Box is a publicly traded company with nearly 1,600 employees, and the cloud is a virtual seventh heaven. We took note of Box's sourcing tactics, and the metrics and tools they used to build one of the top hiring orgs of all time. There was no formal training. MORE