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Workspan Daily
10/16/2025
Shareholder Alignment
With jobs, annual bonuses, long-term incentives (LTIs) and, in many cases, significant portions of personal wealth tied to share price, executives already are well aligned with shareholders (or should be).
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Workspan Daily
12/26/2024
Planning Changes and Changing Plans
The Alexander Group survey shows companies are planning major changes to their incentive compensation plans and are adapting swiftly to changing market dynamics.
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Workspan Daily
01/18/2024
For example, abrupt changes made to short-term incentives (STIs) without considering the long-term incentive (LTI) plan adjustments made just last year can be short-sighted.
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Pay Equity Planning Template
This customizable worksheet reviews the steps and provides space to plan the resources and details needed to conduct a gender-based analysis project at an organization.

Workspan Daily
01/31/2023
Bifurcate or Truncate STI and/or LTI Performance Periods A more wholesale change is to bifurcate the performance period of an annual incentive plan (e.g., two six-month periods versus one annual period) or truncate the performance period of a long-term incentive plan (e.g., one-year or two-year goals with additional vesting versus three-year goals).
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Pay Equity Planning Guide
In the era of pay transparency, Total Rewards teams are challenged with how to plan for pay equity, including issues like explaining the fairness of pay decisions, coaching leaders on how to talk about the organization's commitment, and reporting to boards about their process methodology.

Workspan Magazine
11/03/2023
Although ESG metrics align with long-term goals in many respects, they appear much more frequently in short-term incentive plans (Figure 3).
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Workspan Magazine
10/01/2025
It’s important to note that reduction or suspension of contributions may not be available mid-year for certain safe harbor plan designs.;
Like incentive plans, retirement plans may include vesting schedules, but qualified plans are limited to time-based vesting.
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Workspan Daily
11/15/2023
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Sales performance management (SPM) is comprised of compensation plan design, territory and quota management and, of course, the calculation and reporting of incentives for all your hard-working salespeople.
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Workspan Magazine
08/15/2022
A global technology company had a long history of using a single standard goal-based sales compensation plan design across the enterprise.
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