Great ideas live forever. In 2007, Karen Kroll wrote a compelling article in SHRM’s HR Magazine, “Let’s Get Flexible”. The concept is simple: “The idea of making all elements of employees’ total compensation packages flexible is very attractive to employers and employees.” [1]

One of the biggest obstacles preventing companies from embracing flexible pay models at the time was that there was no ERP system that could make it happen! In this article, Karen reports “Rajiv Burman, vice president of human resources at the Thornhill, Ontario, location of Griffith Laboratories Worldwide Inc., says he has explored total flexible compensation, but the challenge is the amount of work that would be required to track compensation by individual employee, rather than by job level, as is currently done. “It becomes quite complex,” Burman says, noting that he has yet to come across a software package that would automate this task.”

Even today, 15 years later, most systems are based around a single hiring model, that being a salaried or hourly employee at a single pay rate. Compensation is inflexible, and pricing models would need to be altered to improve retention and guarantee project profitability. As a result, companies are locked into a system of hiring with this single “employee model” and having to work around any necessary compensation issues, while also having to worry about implications on worker classification compliance for contingent hourly W-2 employees, independent contractors, and others.

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[1] Let’s Get Flexible By Karen M. Kroll. Obtained from Let’s Get Flexible (shrm.org)