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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. To offset low wages, employers often turn to seasonal worker incentives and bonus programs based on worker performance. What do you think?

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What Is Human Resources?

Analytics in HR

Rewards include salary, perks, and benefits like health insurance, remote work, and performance-based bonuses. Can roll out initiatives to boost employee productivity by launching learning and development programs, performance management tactics, and incentive programs to motivate employees to do better.

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Compensation Planning in 7 Actionable Steps

Analytics in HR

Different types of compensation include base pay, company bonuses, stock options, and benefits like insurance, pension programs, and parental leave. Even so, a recent study by Payscale found that less than 50% of companies have a strategic compensation plan. It can also include bonuses and tips.

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Another New Year- Time to Think About Bonuses

Affinity HR Group

With 2019 over and at the dawn of a new decade, it’s an ideal time to think about bonuses for 2020. Over 60% of respondents in a 2016 World at Work survey reported using some type of bonus or variable pay program, as did 73% of respondents in a more recent 2019 Payscale survey. Discretionary Bonuses. Non-Discretionary Bonuses.

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What COVID means to compensation

HRExecutive

He explains that the pandemic has forced employers like Workday to change compensation quickly and at scale, relying on tools such as hardship pay, one-time bonuses, severance packages and salary reductions. Addressing pay equity and fairness has never been more important,” Thomas says of today’s uncertain economic climate. Sudarshan Sampath.

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SHRM 2017: Mykkah Herner and Pay Incentives

HR Daily Advisor

Today I attended a session by Mykkah Herner, the Compensation Evangelist at Payscale, entitled Effective Incentive Plan Design. The focus of his talk was on variable pay plans and how they fit into an overall pay incentives strategy. And those concepts include bonuses, commissions, retention bonuses, project bonuses, etc.

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7 Tips for Moving to a Pay-for-Performance Culture

Compensation Today

In the 2017 Compensation Best Practices Report , PayScale found that 89 percent of organizations reward and/or recognize performance in some way. In the 2017 Compensation Best Practices Report, PayScale found that 89 percent of organizations reward and/or recognize performance in some way. Click To Tweet. Click To Tweet.