Tag: pay equity

It Happens Too Often: Good Employees Must Leave to get More Pay or a Promotion

HERE’S A PROBLEM that I struggled with when I was a middle manager. It popped up in places I worked from Kentucky to Hawaii, and was detailed recently in a Harvard Business Review story titled When New Hires Get Paid More, Top Performers Resign. First. As the summary in HBR describes it: “To attract new

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Here’s why one analyst thinks pay is key to better employee retention and satisfaction

I CAN’T TELL YOU HOW OFTEN I’ve heard that “people don’t leave because of pay, they leave because of their boss.” Now, as we continue to slowly recover from the pandemic and lockdown, we’re finding out that people leave jobs and take new ones for all sorts of reasons. But what seems to be most important to people today is what has ALWAYS been most important

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Queen Elizabeth Should Be Proud: Her TV Counterpart Is Finally Getting Paid Properly

LIKE SO MANY PEOPLE, one of my very favorite shows on TV today is the Netflix original The Crown. I love it for the same reason’s I loved Mad Men — it brought me up to speed on an era I was too young to fully appreciate but just old enough to vaguely remember. But,

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