Now that many employees can work from an entirely different region, how should pay be determined? And what if a worker needs to travel to the physical office occasionally — who should bear the costs? As companies implement long-term remote work policies for the post-pandemic world, it’s important you have the answers as an HR professional.

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How ready is your organization for flex work? With vaccines rolling out across North America, employers and employees are making decisions about whether or not to return to the office. To help you test the readiness of your organization, here are five questions to consider.

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Mercer’s March edition of the Canada Compensation Planning pulse survey confirmed once again that the pandemic had little to no impact for the majority of companies when it came to rewarding employees. As we begin to navigate the new normal, what’s on their minds in terms of compensation planning for 2021?

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With many employers going through reductions in force in Q4 and, even more importantly, establishing budgets and compensation strategies for 2021 and beyond, this year’s salary surveys will have quite a story to tell. Using aging data, rather than participating in salary surveys and purchasing fresh data, would definitely be a mistake for a variety of reasons. Why, you might ask? Let us explain.

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In a world that still contains a great degree of uncertainty, planning for the next 12 months feels harder than normal. We asked several Mercer consultants what they see as priorities for HR professionals in 2021. Read on for the top 4 topics you should be talking about in the new year.

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You can be confident that using Mercer’s 2020 Canada MBD/TRS data, published in August, reflects the go forward market. While we did ask employers for additional data, to see if there were additional pay actions as a result of the pandemic, we found that there was very little change. Here is the executive summary of the data refresh for both MBD and TRS specific to Canada.

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As employers turn their attention toward planning for 2021, just where are they landing when projected annual increase budgets, and incentive plans? With more finalized numbers, since our last pulse in September, Mercer’s Canadian Compensation Planning survey result shows us that some budgets are lower, but not much else is changing.

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