What Motivates Today's Workforce Thursday, March 10, 2022 1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Recent world events and our changing environment makes attracting and engaging top talent one of employers’ biggest concerns. As we reemerge from COVID-19, it is critical to know what the marketplace currently looks like and what it may look like in the future as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today’s workers are still on the lookout for the next great opportunity, but do your current compensation practices provide what they’re looking for? As a remote workforce becomes more common, what are the implications on compensation practices and strategy? To remain competitive in the talent wars, organizations must take a new approach to pay. They must construct a modernized compensation philosophy and introduce modern compensation practices that attract, engage, and reward employees for their success. Employers also need better compensation practices. During this session, the Optimum Comp Advantage team will share current market trends and tips as it relates to our current economy and the COVID-19 pandemic. Optimum Comp Advantage will also discuss what’s most important to today’s workforce, as it relates to compensation practices. Join us to discover what professionals look for most in an employer and hear success stories from organizations that have mastered the art of aligning their pay practices with their workforce’s needs and desires.  Session Objectives This session will cover the following: How to modernize your compensation philosophy and practices to attract, engage and reward top talent. What's important to today's workforce. How compensation relates to the remote workforce.  Tim Silvera is a total rewards expert with over 25 years of corporate and consulting experience in designing and implementing innovative total rewards practices that engage employees to drive business results and build results-driven cultures. His expertise includes executive and broad-based compensation, variable pay design, performance management and sales compensation. Tim’s experience spans domestic as well as global compensation in high-tech, life sciences, medical device, real estate, manufacturing, energy, mining, retail, outsourcing, healthcare and many other industries. Graduate of California State University, Hayward with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, with an emphasis in HR and finance. Tim also holds the following designations: Certified Compensation Professional, Certified Global Professional in Human Resources, Master Human Capital Strategist and Executive HR Professional from Stanford University Jolene McKee has experience market pricing jobs, developing competitive base pay ranges and writing company-wide and sales incentive plans for small high-growth, mid-market and large sized organizations in the life sciences, technology, construction, restaurants and hospitality, retail and wholesale, pharmaceutical, professional services, professional associations, banking, non-profit, higher education, manufacturing, web-services, medical device and healthcare Industries. Jolene also has experience with both executive and global compensation. Jolene is a graduate from San Diego State University with a BS in Business Management with an emphasis in Human Resources and minor in Leadership. Jolene is currently completing the Certified Compensation Professional designation from WorldatWork.