Candidates Compare More Than Pay – Reward Needs to Reflect the Whole Deal
Holly Coe | 28 May 2026
In my conversations with clients, one thing comes up time and time again. Base pay still matters, but it’s rarely the deciding factor on its own anymore. It’s just the starting point.
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Driving Performance When Employees Feel Disconnected
Daisy Murray | 27 May 2026
During my work experience at Innecto, I was asked a question many organisations face today: How do you motivate performance when employees are emotionally holding back and feel disconnected from their managers?
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Riding the wave: what the Employment Rights Act 2025 really means for reward
Holly Coe | 09 April 2026
Most HR teams will (rightly) focus first on compliance, but for reward leaders, stopping there would be a mistake. ERA 2025 doesn’t just change processes; it reshapes the underlying cost architecture of the workforce, with material implications for pay strategy, workforce planning, absence costs and reward governance. Reward teams must therefore translate legal change into financial and workforce insight, helping their organisations adapt early and avoid unintended consequences.
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The impact of the NLW increases and pay compression
Simon Cook | 02 April 2026
The UK's ‘National Minimum Wage’ was introduced in 1999 to protect the lowest paid and has since been expanded to cover over 2 million workers, ensuring they receive a fair rate of pay for their labour.
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The Push/Pull of Regional Pay Differentials and Remote Working
Cathryn Edmondson | 26 March 2026
Regional variation in pay is nothing new. For some organisations, it’s a simple distinction between London and the rest of the UK; for others, it’s become far more nuanced. But since the Covid-19 pandemic, the rise of remote working has added an extra layer of complexity: how should pay be managed for individuals whose salary is linked to a specific office when they rarely, if ever, attend that location?
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Rethinking Pay Reviews: From Admin to Insight
Karen Thornley | 19 March 2026
Why, in 2026, are so many HR teams still running pay review on spreadsheets? Why are we still chasing managers for updates, wrestling with version control and holding our breath every time a file crashes?
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The Changing Shape of Work’: What HR and Reward Leaders are Really Grappling with
Ashley Skilton | 26 February 2026
Pay Transparency | Reward | Pay
When we brought the Innecto Advisory Board together in January, we asked a simple question: how is the shape of work changing, and what does that mean for organisations in practice? What emerged was not radical reinvention, but growing tension between simplicity and rigour, transparency and defensibility, automation and judgement. Transparency has quietly shifted the centre of gravity in Reward, from design to justification. Across sectors, HR and Reward leaders are navigating pressures that are subtle but increasingly structural.
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Pay Compression: The Silent Retention Risk Organisations Can’t Ignore
Holly Coe | 19 February 2026
The world of pay and talent is shifting beneath our feet. Skills shortages, hybrid working expectations, transparency regulations, the rising cost of living, and internal equity pressures are combining to reshape the employer–employee relationship.
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Introducing Advance: Future-proofing pay review cycles
Sarah Lardner | 12 February 2026
In 2026, it’s hard to imagine organisations still running pay review on spreadsheets. And yet there are HR teams across the country gearing up for another gruelling cycle of manual data gathering, version confusion and sleepless nights as they trying to balance performance, fairness and budget – all in Excel.
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The Reward and Benefits Landscape – what to expect in 2026
Jenny Hinde, Chief People Officer | 05 February 2026
As we look ahead to 2026, reward and benefits strategies are being reshaped by rising employee expectations, economic pressure, and rapid technological change. Organisations that cut through complexity and focus on what truly matters will be best placed to drive engagement, equity and performance.
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Pay Progression: The Strategic Lever Driving Retention and ROI
Holly Coe | 22 January 2026
When employees see little room for pay growth, talent retention suffers. Pay is consistently near the top of the list of reasons people leave organisations. Put simply, when employees feel their prospects of pay progression are limited or unclear, engagement drops and attrition rises.
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Why wider business calls for greater transparency are a good opportunity for Reward and Benefits teams
Holly Coe | 15 January 2026
Transparency is no longer a fringe debate for HR. It is rapidly becoming a defining feature of organisations that are credible and fit for the future. As scrutiny increases from both regulators and employees, Reward and Benefits teams sit in the middle of this shift. Far from being a threat, the demand for transparency presents a timely opportunity for these teams to elevate influence, strengthen trust and demonstrate measurable value to business.
