Ben Haddad

Replied to in Global & Mobility · 3d ago

What three years of host-based pay for new assignments taught us

I would push back a little on the conclusion. The problem with high-to-low moves is not host-based pay, it is that those moves are usually company-initiated and

Replied to in Benefits & Wellbeing · 2w ago

What medical trend are you budgeting for next year, before plan changes?

I would push back a little on leaning on a single rolling twelve months. We did that two years ago, budgeted 5.5% on the back of a quiet year, and had to go bac

Replied to in Benefits & Wellbeing · 1mo ago

At what size did moving from fully insured to self-funded with stop-loss make sense?

We looked at 500 employees and stayed fully insured, and I do not regret it. One member with a transplant and one premature birth in the same year would have us

Replied to in Benefits & Wellbeing · 2mo ago

Is anyone measuring whether a financial wellbeing programme changes anything?

I would look hard at the earned-wage access numbers before presenting them as a success. In ours, 9% of users accounted for 60% of withdrawals and were drawing

Replied to in New Member Welcome · 2mo ago

Came over from finance: I can model a budget but not explain a pay decision

Take up the offer in your last line. Start a thread in the Compensation space on how you build a salary budget model with attrition and mid-year hires in it. Mo

Replied to in Job Architecture & Careers · 3mo ago

Template: the one-page levelling decision record we require for every new role

I'd add a comparator at the level above as well. Ours has both, and the upper one is where inflated requests fall over, because the manager has to explain why t

Posted in Job Architecture & Careers · 3mo ago

Unpopular view: most frameworks carry two levels too many in the middle

5 replies

Asked in Benefits & Wellbeing · 4mo ago

Counselling service used by 4% of staff. Is that low, and what moved it for you?

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Replied to in Global & Mobility · 5mo ago

Is a global benefits floor realistic for an NGO working in 40 countries?

We did it across 34 countries. The cheapest and most valued part was life and disability, which we pooled into one global group policy at twice annual salary fo

Replied to in Global & Mobility · 5mo ago

Seven years into a three-year assignment in Singapore. How do we localise?

Do all 12 at once with the same terms. We did ours one at a time over two years, each negotiated by a different managing partner, and ended up with 12 different

Replied to in Benefits & Wellbeing · 6mo ago

Paid carer's leave at a university: how many days, and do you ask for evidence?

We offer ten days, self-declared, no evidence, at a hospital trust with 9,000 staff. Average use among those who take any is 3.6 days and only 8% of staff use i

Replied to in Job Architecture & Careers · 6mo ago

Levelling 340 acquired staff onto our nine levels: before or after pay harmonisation?

I'd push back on that. In our case (US healthcare technology, 180 people acquired) the levels leaked into the range conversation within weeks, because the range

Replied to in Global & Mobility · 7mo ago

Unpopular view: the full balance sheet is the wrong default for most moves today

It earns its keep wherever you are asking someone to go somewhere they would not choose and you need them back. Our project directors going to sites in Kazakhst

Posted in Job Architecture & Careers · 7mo ago

Verbs I have banned from our level descriptors, and what replaced them

4 replies

Replied to in Benefits & Wellbeing · 7mo ago

Harmonising benefits after a merger: we levelled up on three things and froze the rest

Fair challenge on holiday. It was the cheapest of the three on paper at 0.3% and I accept the cover cost is understated. If I did it again I might offer it as h

Replied to in New Member Welcome · 8mo ago

I am the whole HR department and pay has just landed on my desk. Where first?

Welcome, and you are far from the only solo HR person here who has been handed pay. Before building anything, get every salary into one sheet with job title, st

Replied to in New Member Welcome · 9mo ago

Six years advising on pay, first month in-house, and it is a different job

Thank you. The point about consulting the payroll manager first arrived a week too late for one proposal, but in time for the next. I have joined the Global Rew

Posted in New Member Welcome · 9mo ago

Six years advising on pay, first month in-house, and it is a different job

5 replies

Replied to in Job Architecture & Careers · 12mo ago

We cut 62 job families to 23, and eleven had crept back within a year

We refused one last year: a 'customer success engineering' family that turned out to be six people and a manager who wanted a different bonus plan. What helped