Category: Pay
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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Salary budget planning: Five key benefits of a long-term strategy
Spencer Hughes | 11 September 2025
Good data | HR Technology | Pay
Annual compensation reviews are considered an industry standard, but a growing number of companies are starting to layer in multiple cycles to catch and manage the various nuances of pay.
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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.
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Is pay transparency becoming more prevalent globally?
Justine Woolf | 15 May 2025
The momentum around pay transparency is building for two key reasons, legislative pressure in key markets and societal expectations brought on by a new generation of workers.
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What to expect from this year’s round of pay negotiations ... and how to soften the blow
Holly Coe | 24 April 2025
How Emerald Publishing adopted an “informed, fair and consistent approach to pay”
Spencer Hughes | 07 March 2025
HR software | HR Technology | Pay benchmarking | Pay
To enable a robust and effective Pay Benchmarking process, Emerald Publishing worked with our consultants and adopted our pay benchmarking tool, PayLab.
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Gender Pay: Top tips for reducing pay gaps in 2025
Justine Woolf | 14 February 2025
Pay & Reward | Pay benchmarking | Pay
Every organisation is different and brings its own challenges and nuances when it comes to its Pay Gap.
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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.
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