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Pay Transparency Starts Here

A few years back a small software company in Boulder, Colorado called Buffer pioneered the idea of pay transparency. The audacious startup still publishes all their salaries for the world to see. https://buffer.com/salaries Not long after, companies like Glitch and...
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Is Employee Motivation the Key to Performance and Retention?

Can motivating your employees improve employee loyalty and retention? What is the role of motivation in the overall performance of your people? These are larger questions that motivation experts like Daniel Pink in Drive; and Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria...
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MIA: Retention Management in HRTech

Missing in Action: Retention Management Category in HR Tech In reviewing criteria for the SHRMLabs Better Workplaces Challenge Cup, I noticed a category for “retention” missing from their preferred solutions list. See below. Though, they do list Employee Experience. So,...
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How to Win the Compensation Game: Quit Negotiating

The US tech industry is responsible for some of the biggest and most important breakthroughs of the last forty years, ones that have revolutionized how we live, work, and do business. Yet, when it comes to setting compensation for talent,...
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Closing the Pay Perception Gap

When it comes to negotiating a job offer, recruiters encounter a dual challenge. At the outset, companies and job candidates rarely agree on compensation. In fact, the differences in perceptions of market pay can be substantial. Candidates typically believe they...
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