Effective compensation management is pivotal to successful business outcomes. Recent research from MetLife found that employees who are satisfied with their benefits package are 1.3 times more likely to stay loyal to their employer and 1.2 times more likely to feel more productive. Your total rewards packages (and how you manage them) are the key to attracting top talent, retaining your best performers, increasing productivity, and boosting morale across your organization.

Of course, managing salaries and benefits packages for hundreds or thousands of people across an enterprise is complex. That’s where compensation management technology comes in. A robust compensation planning tool will help you maximize your resources and implement the most effective strategy for your organization.

Enterprise organizations around the world are transforming their annual merit, rewards, and incentive processes with PeopleFluent Compensation. This comprehensive total rewards planning software moves you beyond manual, spreadsheet-driven activities to secure, scalable, and efficient compensation management solutions aligned with your business goals.

But don’t just take our word for it! Read the three use cases below to learn how leading companies have achieved tangible results with PeopleFluent.

READ A CASE STUDY | ‘How Close Brothers Improves Efficiency and Modernizes Award Cycles With PeopleFluent Compensation’

How a Healthcare Client Automated Merit Calculations With PeopleFluent

A large U.S.-based healthcare enterprise with over 300,000 employees across approximately 2,000 sites needed to:

• Streamline and expedite its annual merit process
• Reduce its reliance on spreadsheets
• Strengthen compliance management
• Enhance the compensation experience for its HR teams and end-users

The organization wanted an efficient, software-driven solution and selected PeopleFluent Compensation because the platform centralizes workflows, improves resource management, and automates merit calculations. During the summer of 2025, the organization ran a pilot of the platform, moving approximately 70,000 employees off spreadsheets across six divisions. The successful pilot program confirmed the organization’s system readiness and user satisfaction with PeopleFluent’s compensation software.

Partnering with PeopleFluent helped the healthcare enterprise achieve:

• Improved workflow efficiencies: The platform’s simplified task ownership and coordination capabilities ensure that the organization’s HR teams remain aligned and on schedule.
• Improved regulatory compliance and risk reduction: PeopleFluent Compensation’s automated calculations reduced the amount of errors that would previously occur using manual processes. The platform’s functionalities also allowed for better audit tracking, clearer process documentation, and greater transparency throughout the compensation planning process to support internal controls and external compliance.

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How a Global Medical Device Company Standardized Its Rewards Cycles and Improved Efficiency

A global company that employs more than 80,000 people in the production of medical devices needed to modernize and standardize its annual rewards cycle and management incentive plan processes. The organization also wanted to eliminate spreadsheets as they were leading to manual and cumbersome workflows.

The organization chose PeopleFluent Compensation to support consistency and compliance across its global enterprise while improving experiences for managers and employees. With support from PeopleFluent, the organization was able to:

• Improve operational efficiency: Replacing manual spreadsheets with a centralized compensation management system gave leaders and HR professionals greater visibility into the reward planning process across regions and business units. Coordination between teams improved and data reconciliation time was reduced.
• Facilitate stronger governance and risk mitigation: PeopleFluent Compensation allowed the organization to automate complex calculations, introduce approval controls, and create clear audit trails that made it easier to track and demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Experience continuous improvements: Since the 2018 rewards cycle, PeopleFluent Compensation has helped the company improve efficiency, accuracy, and user satisfaction. HR teams have reduced processing times and dealt with fewer errors, while managers report having a more intuitive and streamlined experience during reward cycle reviews.

READ ANOTHER COMPENSATION CASE STUDY | ‘Major Tobacco Corporation Fast-Tracks Workforce Compensation Planning Process With PeopleFluent’

How a Global Manufacturing Company Improved Pay Equity Across Its Annual and Off-Cycle Processes

A manufacturing company with locations around the world wanted to normalize pay equity, market parity, and pay adjustments for its annual and off-cycle compensation processes. The organization worked with PeopleFluent to design and optimize annual merit and bonus awards cycles. The cycles included:

• Eligibility
• Calendars
• Measures
• Calculation rules
• Allocation hierarchies
• Budgets
• Total rewards statements

PeopleFluent also enabled an off-cycle compensation process for ad hoc merit increases and promotions with a conditionally branching workflow approval chain. The organization worked closely with PeopleFluent to implement the new platform in just five months. This allowed it to run its spring compensation cycle without experiencing any interruptions.

With PeopleFluent Compensation, the organization was able to support:

• Merit planning
• Promotions
• Automated pay equity normalization
• Inflationary adjustments for salary planning
• Annual and multi-year executive incentive plans

Based on positive business results and the smooth implementation experience, the global enterprise decided to further integrate its systems by implementing PeopleFluent Talent Management, particularly for the platform’s performance management and succession planning capabilities.