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To Be A Better Ally, Focus On Everyday Actions

HR Tech Girl

Karen Catlin About the interviewee: After spending 25 years building software products and serving as a vice president of engineering at Adobe, Karen Catlin witnessed a sharp decline in the number of women working in tech. As a vice president at Adobe, I felt a call to action to mentor, support, and sponsor women across the company.

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Employee Engagement ROI: Taking a Long-Term Perspective

Everwise

In the context of the “physical,” Airbnb constantly experiments with its physical space, testing different layouts and floor plans and providing employees with modest budgets to design and build their conference rooms. Adobe is an example of a company focusing on all three aspects. more often in Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work.

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Just How Real Are These New Benefits?

Compensation Cafe

Adobe gives up to 26 weeks of paid time off for new mothers. For comparison, let’s look at how vacation, whether limited or unlimited, has worked in the past. She speaks at conferences in the U.S. Let’s look at some of them: • Yahoo gives mothers 16 paid weeks off and fathers get eight. Jacque has an M.S.

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New Research on Cutting-Edge Performance Management: What Are We Learning?

Compensation Cafe

Finally, we are conducting research on a field experiment in a major health insurer that is adopting ratingless appraisal in four pilot units, and we are collected before-and-after data in pilot and comparison units. The first hour of the session will feature a summary of key findings from our survey study.