Elena Vasquez· Northfield Society
PinnedWhether you've just joined Northfield Society or you've been a member for years and are new to this community, welcome. Introduce yourself in this space. Ask the basic question.…
Hannah Müller· Steinbach Industrie
PinnedWe went live with the final region last month, so I finally have the distance to write this up honestly. Three years, 34,000 employees, 19 countries. What worked: Starting with…
Aisha Karim· Independent
PinnedWith the transposition deadline behind us, I'm trying to benchmark where peer organisations actually are rather than where the consultancies say we should be. We're a 6,000-person…
Omar Jimenez· Ravenna Chemicals
I lead one of the mid-sized chapters, and our autumn attendance has slipped two years running: 46 in 2024, 38 last year, and 29 registered for this month so far. Spring holds up…
Ximena Larsen· Lumen Biosciences
The draft questionnaire for the 2027 benchmarking study is in the council folder. It has 46 questions, down from 58 last year, when a third of respondents abandoned it before the…
Noor Chen· Silverline Media
The first batch is out. We received 212 proposals by the deadline and I have assigned 15 to each of you, with every proposal going to two reviewers. Please check your list today…
Ximena Bauer· Pinehurst Foods
I am rebuilding the pay equity model for a Canadian credit union of about 1,700 employees, and I am stuck on a specification question rather than a data one. Tenure is a strong…
Tessa Iversen· Lumen Biosciences
We are a financial technology company with about 800 employees. We are moving six product managers from Warsaw to Dublin for 18 months to build a new team, after which they are…
Samir Grant· Vantage Telecom
Packaging group, about 2,800 employees across Germany, the Netherlands and Spain. Reading the directive, a gap of 5% or more in any category of workers that is not justified and…
Ximena Hoffmann· Meridian Health Systems
We had an expensive surprise this year. A sales director was granted restricted shares while working in France, moved to our US office after a year, then to Singapore. When the…
Elif Lindqvist· Bellwether Consulting
Most of our 2,300 employees are in Western Europe, but we have about 120 people across two countries where annual inflation has been running above 40%. I lead reward for a…
Wren Zhang· Silverline Media
Our account managers at a food ingredients supplier in the Netherlands, 48 people, had a plan with five measures: revenue, gross margin, new product sales, customer visits logged…
Oscar Lindqvist· Beacon Retail Group
Facilities management software vendor in Vancouver, 55 account executives selling to property owners across Canada. Until recently nearly all deals were one-year terms. Finance…
Mateo Rasmussen· Independent
We are a pharmaceutical manufacturer in Switzerland with about 3,300 employees. Our merit matrix ties increases directly to a five-point rating, so rating is a genuine driver of…
Colin Walsh· Kestrel Aerospace
Our survey data for India has an effective date of 1 September and our structure takes effect on 1 April. I manage reward for the Bengaluru and Pune centres of a European…
Amara Novak· Aurora Hospitality
This came to us from the membership team, who report that mentors in the association's programme regularly ask whether their time counts towards recertification. At present it…
Ulla Iversen· Aurora Hospitality
We have lived with the Entgelttransparenzgesetz for some years, and honestly the individual information right has been used by perhaps fifteen employees out of 2,200. So my…
Noor Esposito· Steinbach Industrie
We are a veterinary services group in the UK, and in March we acquired a competitor, taking us from 3,200 to about 5,100 employees. The acquired business has no grades, pays vets…
Yusuf Jimenez· Beacon Retail Group
I spent a day in the field last month with sellers at our packaging business in Canada, about 65 reps. Every single one showed me a private spreadsheet in which they track their…
Dalia Delaney· Copperfield Mining
We are a shipping and logistics group with roughly 6,000 employees and, at any time, around 70 people on long-term assignment. In 2023 we stopped offering the home-based balance…
