The Compensation Issue Nobody Has Solved Yet - Pay transparency - Beyond the Paycheck

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Pay transparency Compensation strategy total rewards leadership HR operations fertility benefits at work

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Summary The Mayo Clinic once surveyed its employees and found a 17% positive perception of pay. A year later, after running better enablement and transparency sessions - without spending a single additional dollar on comp - that number climbed to 80%. That story says a lot about what's actually broken in total rewards, and it's exactly the kind of thing Chris Toney thinks about every day. In this episode, Kelsey Willock sits down with Chris Toney, Senior Director of Total Rewards and HR Operations at Quest Software, for a warm and refreshingly candid conversation about pay, benefits, and the deeply personal nature of both. Chris started out as an English literature major who, by his own admission, is bad at math - and somehow ended up leading total rewards for a global tech company. That mix of left and right brain comes through in how he talks about the work. He and Kelsey get into why comp can't be purely prescriptive, how job-hopping has scrambled the math on raises, what he looks for when introducing benefits like fertility coverage, and why the biggest gap in most programs isn't the design - it's the communication.