Category: Evaluate
How job architecture tech is changing and what this means for reward strategy: Part 1 – Job Evaluation
Justine Woolf | 14 August 2025
Strong Job Architecture provides a company and its employees with a clear framework to understand roles, align jobs and set pay according to the type of work being carried out. In defining a company’s roles, it also serves as a basis for making strategic decisions around pay, retention, career progression and skills development.
How Accent Group partnered with Innecto to revolutionise their pay and reward
Holly Coe | 07 August 2025
Accent Group partnered with Innecto Reward consultants and used our tech tools PayLab and Evaluate to enable a successful transition for their pay frameworks and job evaluation. After a successful eight-month project, their Reward Consultant Pauline Prince spoke with Holly Coe.
How you can use HR Tech to improve Pay Transparency
Justine Woolf | 03 July 2025
Evaluate | PayLab | Advance | Hapi | Employee Benefits
Pay data is not exciting. Most often, it sits in spreadsheets or databases and is handled by a fraction of staff in each company. Innecto are experienced in helping our clients leverage their data to great effect, generating real insights through the software we have developed working alongside them.
The Future of Reward: how could things look in 2035?
Justine Woolf | 19 June 2025
Evaluate | Job Evaluation Software | Agile working | Job evaluation | Employee Experience | Advance | The Metaverse | Employee Value Proposition
Ten years ago, Personal Group CEO Deborah Frost wrote an article for Personnel Today entitled What Could Reward Look Like in 2025? She explored potential trends towards matrix organisations and more social ways of working, and asked how skillsets, base pay and working environments might evolve.
Business services roles in Law – helping firms value the undervalued
Justine Woolf | 03 October 2024
Evaluate | Pay Structure | Job evaluation
Historically and perhaps understandably, much of the focus in law firms has been on fee-earning roles. It has been more of a challenge for HR departments to implement formal reward structures for Business Services roles. Now, though, this whole area is being driven up the agenda by challenges in recruitment and retention as well as legislative and social pressures.
Pay Equity: Ensuring Fairness and Equity in Compensation
Spencer Hughes | 09 August 2024
Pay Fairness | Equal Pay | Evaluate | PayLab | Pay
Pay equity is the practice of paying equally for work of equal value. But what do we mean by work of equal value? And how can we ensure that we are using the right measure for that? There are two key pillars in ensuring fairness and equity in pay: the reward framework and the implementation and communication of that framework.
The key technology changes to be aware of as we plan Reward Strategy for 2024
Sarah Lardner | 23 November 2023
Evaluate | Job Evaluation Software | HR software | HR Technology | PayLab | Advance | Hapi
HR Tech is evolving to meet the ever-changing needs of modern business. Previously companies acquired an Enterprise solution like Oracle or PeopleSoft to ‘do everything’. Now HR Directors can pick and choose between a range of products on different platforms with an expectation that they can integrate and ‘talk to each other’. It sounds straightforward but the goalposts are constantly shifting so it is important to peel back the layers.
How organisational design can help mitigate staff shortages
Sarah Lardner | 03 March 2023
Evaluate | Job Evaluation Software | Job evaluation
On 20 February, BBC Online published an article entitled How shrinking teams are pushing workers to the brink. It outlines how staff shortages are leading to workers having to perform multi-faceted roles, take on heavier workloads and complete tasks beyond their job remit.
The key technology changes to be aware of as we plan Reward Strategy for 2023
Sarah Lardner | 13 January 2023
Evaluate | Job Evaluation Software | HR software | Reward technology | HR Technology | PayLab | Advance | Hapi
HR Tech is evolving to meet the ever-changing needs of modern business. Previously companies acquired an Enterprise solution like Oracle or PeopleSoft to ‘do everything’. Now HR Directors can pick and choose between a range of products on different platforms with an expectation that they can integrate and ‘talk to each other’. It sounds straightforward but the goalposts are constantly shifting so it is important to peel back the layers.
Bespoke or off-the-shelf Job Evaluation frameworks – which is right for your organisation?
09 June 2021
There are advantages to both bespoke and off-the-shelf frameworks, and it is about weighing up these pros and cons. Cathryn Edmonson details the key considerations to bear in mind - regardless of which approach you decide on.
Your 4 step guide to organisational design
23 January 2020
HR Reward | Reward Consultancy | Evaluate | Job Evaluation Software | Organisational Design | Job evaluation | Productivity
This week Innecto's Sarah Lardner brings you her handy guide to organisational design - how to do it and what value it can add to your organisation.
Fairness in Pay Part 1 - Job Evaluation: Every little helps
13 February 2018
HR Reward | Reward Consultancy | Pay Fairness | Equal Pay | Equal Pay Audits | Pay & Reward | Evaluate | Recognition | Pay Review | Reward
We're starting a 3-part series today on fair pay. Both gender pay and equal pay have been in the news recently and it's important to get ahead of the issues they bring up for discussion. First up, it's Sarah Lardner explaining how job evaluation can help prevent equal pay claims.
