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Beyond Compensation: How to REALLY Motivate Employees

<img src="http://cdn-payscale.com/content/blogs/header_MotivateWithScience.jpg"><a href="https://plus.google.com/102099066436032147105? rel=author" style="line-height: 1.5">Jessica Miller-Merrell,</a><span style="line-height: 1.5"> blogging4jobs</span><p>Although we know compensation is the number one reason people leave companies, pay isn’t the only factor in employee engagement. Pay meets the basic need, but what comes next? The truth is, there’s a science to motivation that really works and it’s backed by proven research and psychology.</p>

Why HR Needs More Tech Budget

<img width="610" height="175" src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/b2b/header_hrtechbudget_main.png" alt="Header_HRTechBudget_Main" />By Kari Van Hoof, CCP, PayScale Compensation Professional</p><p>Technology has muscled its way into all aspects of our lives and in many cases—regardless of profession, is fundamentally changing the way we do our work. Since HR plays a pivotal role in helping to attract, develop and retain the right people to drive organizations forward, it’s essential that HR use technology to do their work better. The good news is there are lots of choices on the market today when it comes to human resources technology. The not-so-good news is that all those choices cost money. Here are three reasons HR should spend more on HR tech.

Top 5 Insights from Last Year’s CBPR (plus take the new survey!)

<img width="610" height="175" src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/b2b/header_cbpr2015_main.png" alt="header_CBPR2015_Main" />Jade Makana, Director of Content Marketing, B2B<p>For those who don’t know, every year PayScale produces the <b>Compensation Best Practices Report</b>. This report is based on a survey administered to 100,000 human resources professionals and business executives, asking them their point of view on the biggest topics in human resources and compensation: everything from minimum wage and managing millennials, to recommending your favorite HRIS and payroll software. Last year, we got over 5,000 responses.</p>

Retention, retention, retention: Employers focus on keeping staff in 2015

<p><span style="line-height: 1.5"><img src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/Blogs/blogheader5_29-(1).jpg?sfvrsn=0" title="BlogHeader5_29 (1)"><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/111048221756567587195?%20rel=author">Tessara Smith,</a>&nbsp;PayScale</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5">For the third year in a row, PayScale’s 2015 Compensation Best Practices Report (CBPR), discovered that employee retention was a top concern among the majority of employers.