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 (April 14, 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
Compensation Strategy AI Disruption: Act Before Congress Does Posted on March 23, 2026 by Laura Morgan Most HR Directors are watching the AI legislation conversation from a safe distance. They are tracking headlines, attending webinars, and waiting for regulatory clarity before making compensation decisions. Meanwhile, the White House has already moved, and the signal inside its March 2026 National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence is unmistakable: compensation strategy AI disruption is […] Read More… from Compensation Strategy AI Disruption: Act Before Congress Does
What College Basketball Teaches Us About Merit Allocation Posted on March 16, 2026 (March 16, 2026) by Neil Morgan Every January, several hundred Duke University students pitch tents outside Cameron Indoor Stadium and begin a weeks-long vigil for basketball tickets. They study for a trivia exam. Midnight air-horn checks by student enforcers punctuate their sleep. All of it is governed by a 50-page constitution covering everything from tent dimensions to what qualifies as a […] Read More… from What College Basketball Teaches Us About Merit Allocation
Why HR Professionals Struggle to Build Real Networks: And What to Do About It Posted on March 10, 2026 by Stacy Fenner Our founder, Laura Morgan, told me a story a while ago. She once walked into a leadership meeting and did something most HR professionals would consider completely natural. She had seen a leader’s birthday on his record while working in the system, and when she saw him that morning, she wished him a happy birthday. […] Read More… from Why HR Professionals Struggle to Build Real Networks: And What to Do About It
Communicating Compensation Data Without Losing Your Audience Posted on March 6, 2026 by Alex Morgan You built the model and ran the regression. You cross-referenced three salary surveys, validated the compa-ratio distribution, and color-coded the outliers. But when it comes to communicating compensation data effectively, you watched the room glaze over somewhere around slide four. Here is a hard truth for every compensation professional: your audience does not want to […] Read More… from Communicating Compensation Data Without Losing Your Audience
Pay Transparency Is Exposing Internal Pay Problems Faster Than Ever Posted on March 4, 2026 (March 6, 2026) by Austin Schleeter Picture this: your organization just posted salary ranges on every open requisition because your legal team said you had to. Within 48 hours, a high-performing engineer in your Chicago office discovers that the posted range for her job title starts $18,000 above her current salary. She is not angry yet. But she will be. Pay […] Read More… from Pay Transparency Is Exposing Internal Pay Problems Faster Than Ever