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Workspan Quarterly 3rd Quarter 2021 Employee training is being reshaped at Pepsico thanks to video game-based program developed a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and his 11-year-old son.

;When it comes to sales compensation plans, 73% of organizations use goal-based incentives, 49% of organizations use commission plans with fixed commission rates and 36% use flexible objectives-based plans that reward for accomplishments other than financial results.

“I don’t think it’s that long before you have always-on pay equity analysis,” he said.

Exceptions to Relaxing the Requirement While a Cengage report from July 2022 found that employers relied on degree requirements partly because of an unfamiliarity with credentialing programs, skills-based hiring is nonetheless growing more popular in the workforce.

“Otherwise, their employees will have very different experiences simply based on location, and that runs the risk of reducing employee trust and engagement,” said Gail Greenfield, executive vice president of pay equity and total rewards strategy and solutions at Trusaic.

;Innovation metrics are appropriately balanced among: –1) Leading and lagging drivers of performance – 2) Hard (e.g., financial results) and soft (e.g., behaviors, perceptions) metrics – 3) Process, product and service innovation metrics – 4) Short-term and long-term objectives – 5) Individual, team and corporate objectives.

Making diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives part of the organization’s values and a key component of performance evaluations increases the chances of success

Practical Actions Armed with the recent memories of the disruption that 2020 brought to many sales incentive plans (that saw the majority of companies making sales incentive plan adjustments or guarantees), we may be at a unique moment in time to innovate (or at least iterate) total rewards for the salesforce.

“Employers should not overlook incentives or recognition in seeking ways to motivate staff and boost performance,” he said.

New Amazon Program Supports Immigrant and Refugee Employees Amazon has launched its Welcome Door Program , a new initiative designed to provide the company’s refugee and humanitarian-based immigrant employees with additional benefits and tools, including: reimbursement for EAD renewal fees, which on average cost approximately $500 every other year,;a citizenship assistance portal that fully supports U.S. citizenship applications for eligible employees,;ongoing communications that highlight policy changes that might impact an employee's immigration status,;free legal resources to help navigate immigration-related questions and the ability to connect with immigration experts,;skills-training opportunities, including free college tuition and English as a second language (ESL) proficiency through Amazon’s Career Choice program, and;customized mentorship to assist employees with career development.; Amazon has also pledged to provide for the immediate needs and longer-term support for people