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This approach, however, should make compensation and HR professionals cringe because it fails to consider the danger of grounding compensation philosophy and programs in individual employees rather than in jobs.

After the pandemic caused a tumultuous 2020, compensation practices are starting to return to normal at most organizations.

But regardless of the organization’s compensation program, employees should always know how their choices about location will affect their overall compensation, said Vince Cordova, a partner in Mercer’s Mobility Practice.

Indeed, when asked if employees understand their organization’s compensation philosophy, 53% of 1,064 organizations responding to WorldatWork’s Compensation Programs & Practices Survey said most don’t.

Recertification Course Credits WorldatWork Recertification Credits 3 Compensation Credits CEUs 0.3 Credits HRCI Recertification 3 Credits SHRM Recertification 3 Credits Learning Options Exercises are included throughout each section of the course for hands-on practice.

The Total Rewards’24 Conference featured a number of great sessions, including a “Fiery Debate About Executive Compensation.”

As we plan out our editorial calendar for Workspan each year, we try to keep our focus on the compensation-related challenges that are consistently front and center for compensation professionals — pay compression, pay equity, geographic pay strategies, sales compensation and much more.

Workspan Magazine December 2025-January 2026 In this issue: TR pros’ evolving career paths; pay fairness, compensation risk assessments; health benefits scrutiny, executive compensation strategy; and more.

Fred Whittlesey, principal consultant at Compensation Venture Group SPC , said the current interest around crypto in compensation plans reminds him of the stock plans craze in the 1990s.

Companies that handled it best took a number of steps, such as: Defining a cross-functional and cross-geo steering committee to assess and design sales compensation changes;;Investing in digital capabilities to better administer, communicate and implement their sales compensation plans;;Simplifying their compensation plans by eliminating measures and mechanics; and;Improving the alignment of their sales compensation plans to overall business strategy (including changes in strategy), from a data-driven perspective, as opposed to relying purely on philosophy and “gut” beliefs.; Workspan: The pandemic has obviously affected the way companies and leaders approach sales compensation.