Comp and Coffee

Every compensation decision has a person on the other end of it. But compensation professionals are also balancing the needs of employees, recruiters, finance and executive leadership — often with data and processes that struggle to keep pace with a changing world of work.  When Peh Teh joined ...

AI is changing how work gets done, which skills organizations need, and how the value of certain jobs may evolve. But are organizations’ job architectures and compensation strategies keeping pace?  Job architecture has traditionally provided the structure organizations use to define roles, esta...

For many years, pay for performance has been a core principle of compensation.  Perform well, earn more. Contribute more, receive a bigger increase. Reward the people who create the most value.  Simple enough in theory.  But today’s workplace is maki...

For the longest time, compensation has revolved around an annual rhythm.  One yearly market data refresh. One compensation planning cycle.  But that rhythm no longer matches the pace of today's workforce.  Jobs evolve faster than ever. Skills become outdated i...

For years, organizations could define a role and expect its responsibilities to remain relatively stable. Today, that assumption no longer holds.  AI is reshaping work. New skills emerge constantly. Responsibilities evolve faster than organizations can update job descriptions, job arc...

Jobs aren't changing once every few years anymore. They're evolving constantly.  Skills are shifting, AI is reshaping roles, and organizations are redefining jobs faster than traditional job architectures can keep up. At the same time, Talent Acquisition and Compensation tea...

Compensation has never been more visible, more complex, or more connected to business outcomes. Yet many HR and compensation teams are expected to manage pay transparency, market movement, budget planning, manager enablement, and executive expectations with limited resources and little specialized s...

Flight risk is rarely loud. Most of the time, it shows up quietly in compensation data long before it shows up in resignation letters. Across organizations, roles, and levels, the same pattern is emerging: the market is moving faster than internal pay structures. New hires are coming in at higher ra...

Compensation professionals are no longer asking whether AI will change their work—they're asking how, where, and how fast. Teams are experimenting with tools like Claude, Copilot, and ChatGPT to help analyze data, draft communications, support pay decisions, and streamline compensation processes. Ve...

For the last three years, organizations across Europe have been preparing for the biggest shift in pay transparency and pay equity regulation in a generation. The EU Pay Transparency Directive promised to reshape how employers think about compensation — from pay structures and job architecture to re...