Data Slinging in Compensation: Why AI Cannot Rescue Untested Pay Analysis Posted on May 27, 2026 (May 27, 2026) by Laura Morgan Estimated reading time: 15 minutes A friend of mine recently used AI to help her board’s compensation committee appreciate the data she had collected on the nonprofit’s executive pay package. The deck looked sharp. Her talking points landed. Members of the committee felt informed. What she did not bring into that room was IRS Section […] Read More… from Data Slinging in Compensation: Why AI Cannot Rescue Untested Pay Analysis
Your Employees Are Already Using AI Salary Research Tools — Are You Ready? Posted on May 22, 2026 by Alex Morgan Estimated Reading Time: ~7 minutes Every performance review cycle, more employees walk in prepared. They bring compensation ranges pulled from ChatGPT, benchmarks from Glassdoor, and job-level comparisons from LinkedIn — all gathered using AI salary research tools that cost nothing and take minutes to use. The question for HR directors is no longer whether employees […] Read More… from Your Employees Are Already Using AI Salary Research Tools — Are You Ready?
What 27 AI-Tagged Tasks Revealed About AI Productivity Measurement Posted on May 18, 2026 (May 22, 2026) by Laura Morgan Estimated reading time: 6 minutes I pulled the AI productivity measurement data from our Wrike system last week, expecting a clean win story. Twenty-seven AI-tagged tasks across our most recent compensation consulting projects. Planned hours: 150. Actual hours: 183. We ran 22% over plan, not under. The headline looked like bad news for AI adoption […] Read More… from What 27 AI-Tagged Tasks Revealed About AI Productivity Measurement
AI at Work: Read the Label Before You Panic Posted on May 5, 2026 (May 5, 2026) by Stacy Fenner Do We Need a Warning Label for Working with AI? A few weeks ago, I listened to a panel discussion and heard someone say, “There’s research on the side effects of AI. It can take away your personality and creativity.” Honestly, that line stuck with me. Not because I fully agreed. It stuck because it […] Read More… from AI at Work: Read the Label Before You Panic
The HR AI Turning Point: It’s Showing Up in the Questions Posted on April 29, 2026 (April 29, 2026) by Stacy Fenner AI dominates HR conversations right now, and this feels like a genuine HR AI turning point. The questions are getting sharper. Opinions are starting to form. You can feel the shift happening, from “we’re talking about it” to “we probably need to do something about it.” That shift is what HR leaders need to act […] Read More… from The HR AI Turning Point: It’s Showing Up in the Questions
Your Total Rewards Team Is at WorldatWork This Week. Will They Come Back with the Right Kind of Thinking? Posted on April 19, 2026 (April 19, 2026) by Laura Morgan There are a few thousand total rewards leaders gathered in San Antonio this week for WorldatWork Total Rewards ’26. Your people are probably among them. They’re sitting through sessions on pay transparency, equity strategy, market pricing methodology, benefits optimization, and a growing number of sessions on AI. Here’s the question I’d be asking if I […] Read More… from Your Total Rewards Team Is at WorldatWork This Week. Will They Come Back with the Right Kind of Thinking?
AI in Executive Compensation: What Proxy Filings Reveal About Leadership Behaviors Posted on April 14, 2026 (May 18, 2026) by Laura Morgan The proxy filings are coming in. Boards are paying executives for AI. The 2025-2026 DEF 14A season surfaced at least 14 S&P-listed companies that formally embedded AI-specific objectives into executive incentive programs. Those companies include Microsoft, Salesforce, IBM, Textron, and Ralph Lauren. Equilar’s analysis on the Harvard Corporate Governance Blog documents the trend in detail. […] Read More… from AI in Executive Compensation: What Proxy Filings Reveal About Leadership Behaviors
Nonprofit Incentive Compensation, Private Inurement, and Revenue-Based Pay Posted on April 13, 2026 by Austin Schleeter Introduction to nonprofit incentive compensation Nonprofit boards often ask whether they can use incentive compensation without creating tax, governance, or reputational risk. The answer is yes, but the plan must rest on strong legal and governance discipline. A nonprofit can reward performance. It cannot let insiders capture organizational value through an unreasonable or poorly controlled […] Read More… from Nonprofit Incentive Compensation, Private Inurement, and Revenue-Based Pay
How Managers Can Ease Employee Fears About AI (Guide for HR) Posted on April 2, 2026 by Michelle Henderson Your highest-performing employee just asked whether their job will still exist in two years. You gave a reassuring answer, but you were not entirely sure it was true. That gap, between what managers say and what employees believe, is exactly where productivity silently bleeds out. Employee fears about AI are no longer hypothetical. According to […] Read More… from How Managers Can Ease Employee Fears About AI (Guide for HR)
AI Overreliance in the Workplace: How to Spot It Before It Costs You Posted on March 24, 2026 (March 24, 2026) by Alex Morgan Something is happening in your organization right now. An employee submits a polished memo. A manager sends a tightly structured performance summary. A candidate delivers a sharp cover letter. The writing is clean, organized, and strangely uniform. Then you ask one follow-up question. The silence is deafening. AI overreliance in the workplace has a fingerprint. […] Read More… from AI Overreliance in the Workplace: How to Spot It Before It Costs You