Category: Advance
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.
Setting your pay policy - avoiding pitfalls and common traps
Holly Coe | 29 November 2024
When it comes to Pay Review and setting pay policy, HR can lose valuable time in complex manual processes and end up making do without the kinds of tech tools they now have access to for helping crunch the data to inform important decisions. Here Senior Reward Consultant Holly Coe identifies four main areas of concern, and outlines how Innecto's Advance tool can help mitigate.
Top 5 things to consider during this year’s pay review process
Justine Woolf | 06 September 2024
Pay Review | Advance | Pay
Budgeting for pay reviews can mean ploughing through an overwhelming raft of data for organisations but there are simple steps and tools available to take the stress away
The General Election manifestos and what they mean to Reward
Holly Coe | 20 June 2024
Ahead of the General Election on July 4, the manifestos are out and whichever party wins, it looks likely that some clear changes will come into effect that could have a major impact on the reward landscape.
Smaller Pay Rises This Year? The Path Forward for Pay Review 2024
Sarah Lardner | 16 February 2024
Pay reviews can be difficult to manage. In the past, pay pots have enabled people leaders and finance directors the ability to allocate awards effectively, given the cost of living and labour market conditions and address any anomalies. However, this year presents new challenges as pay awards are likely to be more modest, with average pay settlements expected to be around 4%, down from over 6% in the past two years, as predicted by Innecto and confirmed by The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) recent report.
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.
Pay Review: what’s your strategic approach in Q4?
Justine Woolf | 15 September 2023
Pay Review time has arrived again which may feel like a continuous process: an uphill treadmill of pressure, budget crunching and scenario re-modelling.
Pay Review - risks in processes and how to mitigate
Sarah Lardner | 18 August 2023
Sarah Lardner explains how a recent client streamlined their pay review process by eliminating spreadsheets, reducing the risk of error, reducing resource hours, engaging line managers and enabling far better reporting with Advance.
Managing Pay Review – Five key areas for HR to address
Spencer Hughes | 24 February 2023
When it comes to Pay Review, HR can often find themselves losing valuable time in complex manual processes and ultimately without the tools they need to make informed decisions. Here are five common areas of concern where Innecto's Advance tool can almost certainly help.
Taking the Pain out of Pay Review
Sarah Lardner | 27 January 2023
Pay Review time has arrived again and for many at the moment it feels like a continuous process: an uphill treadmill of pressure, budget crunching and scenario re-modelling.
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.
How to utilise workforce data to inform pay fairness in your reward strategy.
16 June 2022
HR Reward | Pay Fairness | Pay & Reward | PayLab | Advance | Pay Data
Fairness is referenced by many organisations in their pay principles, and whilst none of us set out to pay unfairly, the reality is most reward frameworks are seen as unfair by employees.
