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Optimizing your total rewards investment

May 23, 2025

Leadership of today's organizations are scrutinizing their investments across the board. With total rewards representing one of the largest costs an employer has, ensuring the total rewards package is optimized is critical.

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Compensation 101: creating a salary benchmarking process that fits your organization

March 20, 2025

Compensation management is important because it affects so many other functions. Your market pricing activities must be thoughtful, organized, repeatable, accurate, and aligned with your labour market. What is the best way to ensure this happens? Start by developing a salary benchmarking methodology.

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What types of leave do Canadian employers offer?

November 01, 2024

Check out some of the findings from Mercer’s 2024 Canada Leave Programs and see how Canadian employers are providing time away from work, paid or unpaid. Read along to discover what other companies offer their employees to improve retention and engagement while also attracting new talent.

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5 tips for navigating the increase in retiring employees

August 14, 2024

As baby boomers move towards retirement, the threat of losing a significant portion of your workforce lingers. Here are steps you can take to prepare for the transition and minimize the impact of what is known as the silver tsunami.

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The compensation planning season

July 25, 2024

Determining whether base pay, salary ranges, benefits, and other direct and indirect compensation offerings are competitive is imperative. Here are six tips to streamline your approach to compensation planning ensuring a smooth and efficient comp planning season.

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What are short-term incentives?

August 11, 2023

Looking to understand the basics of short-term incentives? This article gives you a high-level overview as well as some suggested surveys that may help you put a STI plan in place at your organization.

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Are your total rewards adding up?

April 06, 2023

Employers are actively managing their total rewards offerings and they're having success! Take a look at the results of our new QuickPulse survey focused on total rewards and recognition to see if your total rewards offerings are adding up.

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