Benefits Manager at Silverline Media
Minneapolis, MN
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After a reorganisation shrinks the job, does the incumbent keep their level?
The job gets the new level immediately; the person gets a personal level marker for a fixed period. We used 24 months at an Austrian energy company. During that
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After a reorganisation shrinks the job, does the incumbent keep their level?
We left the levels alone in a similar situation in 2022 and I regret it. Three years on, 14 of the 19 people are still in the same roles at the old level, two p
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Merit budgets for 2027: what is everyone planning?
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Anyone using a skills-based structure in manufacturing?
Honest answer: we tried it and went back. The structure was fine; the upkeep was not. Nobody owned re-certification, so within three years we were paying for sk
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Anyone using a skills-based structure in manufacturing?
We have run skill blocks at a food plant near Joliet since 2019. Five blocks, each worth 85 cents an hour, signed off by a supervisor and a trainer together aft
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One title or two? Internal level titles versus what staff use with clients
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Lesson learned: we launched career paths before the levels had settled
A different angle: the paths were probably too detailed to survive any change. Ours are deliberately loose. Each family has a single page showing levels, typica
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We cut 62 job families to 23, and eleven had crept back within a year
Our test has three parts and a request needs all of them: at least 25 incumbents, a distinct external market we can price against, and a career path of at least
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