Interview
Pay just got more complicated—here's how to navigate it
Compensation expert David Buckmaster on how to prepare for and benefit from salary transparency, remote-pay policies, inflation adjustments, and more.
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Book Briefing
'Fair Pay' by David Buckmaster: A Nike compensation chief on how to get a raise and make pay fairer
Fair Pay provides both high-level and specific recommendations for how to reform compensation—which is useful reading especially as companies are deploying pay to recruit and retain an increasingly empowered workforce.
Tackling remote harassment, unmasking at work, Covid dreams
What's behind the counterintuitive rise in harassment while workers are remote, and a look at what the CDC's new mask guidance means for businesses.
Disclosing individuals’ pay, ambiverts
A case study in pay transparency at Buffer, how to understand burnout and dropping our of the workforce, and research suggesting ambiverts are the best leaders.
Why this company makes its employees' salaries public
Buffer, a San Francisco social media tools company, adopted pay transparency in 2013 and makes all individual workers’ salaries public externally as well.
Hybrid work best practices, cognitive fog
Stanford's Nicholas Bloom on how to make hybrid work arrangements successful, and the latest news on the economy, executive pay, Amazon, worker job descriptions, and tips for managing yourself and others.
Reset: What people are paid, female Fortune 500 CEOs, bonus trends
We all should be dissatisfied with the status quo around compensation. From the perspective of 2020, this might seem disruptive, or radical. But future generations will wonder what took us so long to address it. Now that companies are saying they care about “stakeholders,” we should hold them, an
Could a change to corporate boards reduce economic inequality?
Over the past 40 years, corporate boards have presided over a shocking divergence between the soaring pay for top executives and the stagnating wages of the working class. So a new proposal to focus board responsibility for the pay and treatment of the workforce deserves discussion—if directors w
Reset: Working parents, pay cuts, Covid baby bust
What companies are doing to navigate remote work, to reopen safely, and to reset their practices for the long-run.
