NERDALERT BLOG
How Salary History Laws (Won’t) Affect You
There is a lot of discussion in the HR community about the impact of new salary history laws (here is a previous list, which you should assume will change). As these laws are now “live” [...]
Uber Drivers Have a 7% Gender Pay Gap
Think about that. In a labor market that is fully mathematical (wages are based on a gender-blind algorithm) where the work is seemingly identical (an Uber ride is an Uber ride), there is still a [...]
Free Money! Using U.S. Tax Reform to Invest in the Workforce
Set aside your politics for a minute. Tax reform in the U.S. is now law, and this is not the setting to debate if it is good or bad. It simply is. So now what? [...]
Your Comp Consultant Might Be Hurting You
Not literally - consultants are generally good people. But their marketing teams might be sharing information that is making your job harder. In the Fall, media outlets love to publish storied about the raises American [...]
Measuring Pay for Performance (with Perspective)
If there is one buzz phrase I've heard a lot in my career, it is "pay for performance." We like to apply it in all sorts of scenarios - commission design, consideration of piece-rate pay [...]
Let’s Stop Making the Irrelevant More Efficient
If you haven't heard of Lucy Adams, you are missing out. Lucy Adams is a reformed HR practitioner, formerly the HR Director at the BBC, who has written and consults on transforming the way [...]