Compensation & Benefits - HR Insights Lab

Featured September 09, 2026

I have sat through 8 years of budget reviews where the employee gifting line was renewed without anyone asking what

September 08, 2026

In 2025 I won a company-wide transformation award, which put me on the receiving end of enterprise recognition instead of

September 04, 2026

In eight years inside a large global talent function, I watched benefits budgets get approved, spent, and quietly ignored. Most

July 28, 2026

I have defended pay decisions on 250+ offers a year, and most of those conversations started with the same confusion.

July 21, 2026

I have built and defended pay decisions for more than 250 hires a year. The hardest ones were never about

July 20, 2026

I have spent eight years on both sides of the compensation table. Defending offers against a finance team’s budget, and