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Here's why CEOs shouldn’t read performance reviews

<p><a href="https://plus.google.com/115301125688955669806? rel=author"><img title="header_CEOShouldntDo" src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/b2b/header_ceoshouldntdo.png?sfvrsn=0">Crystal Spraggins,</a>&nbsp;SPHR </p><p>I have no idea what it’s like to start and then grow a company to the point of needing your first, and then your tenth, and then your hundredth employee. However, I do know this—somewhere along the way, the successful entrepreneur may find she has become the bottleneck to a number of processes.

Salaried Employees Work Hours: Laws from FLSA

<h1 class="subhead">Exempt Employees and Rules Requiring Specified Hours</h1> <p>You probably are aware that exempt employees generally should be paid the same salary regardless of the number of hours they work or the quantity of work they produce. But, can you require them to work a certain schedule and track their hours?</p>

6 Simple cost-cutting strategies during a recession

3 barriers to successful pay-for-performance implementation

<p><a href="https://plus.google.com/100452540302428363448? rel=author"><img src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/b2b/istock_000015905900small.jpg?sfvrsn=1" alt="Pay for performance" title="iStock_000015905900Small" sfref="[images]eb40f79a-def5-6347-a9d2-ff00007054ad">Laleh Hassibi, </a>PayScale </p><p>Today most organizations are either moving toward a pay-for-performance compensation strategy, or at least discussing it. Correlating pay with performance has proven to improve employee retention in many companies, but even so, some detractors of performance-related pay models will tell you that more have been attempted and failed than succeeded.&nbsp;</p>

Paving the way to a healthy workplace with corporate wellness incentives

<img width="610" height="175" src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/b2b/header_healthyincentive.jpg" alt="header_HealthyIncentive"><p><a target="_blank" rel="author noopener" href="https://www.payscale.com/author/tess-c-taylor-phr-the-hr-writer">Tess C. Taylor, PHR, The HR Writer</a></p><p>As Obamacare officially launched across America this year, new requirements forced employers to look for ways to boost their compensation and benefit programs without raising healthcare premium costs. The new law permits employers to use as much as 30 percent of each worker’s health care premium on wellness incentive programs (up from 20 percent last year). The challenge to find cost-effective ways to maintain the well-being and productivity of workers is on.</p>

Link pay to performance. Like…seriously this time!

<img src="http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/Blogs/blogheader6_22.jpg?sfvrsn=0" title="BlogHeader6_22"><a href="https://plus.google.com/115301125688955669806?%20rel=author">Crystal Spraggins,</a>&nbsp;SPHR<div><br></div>When PayScale asked more than 5,500 business leaders the main reason their companies adjusted pay in 2015, <a href="https://www.payscale.com/cbpr?src=hp_2_cbpr" title=" class=" target=" rel="noopener">52 percent answered "employee performance."</a>