compensation has increased significantly mostly in companies with
fewer than five hundred employees.
Economic pressures of the past few years have caused many
organizations to trim staff while at least maintaining, if not increasing, production. This has left workers at all levels with more to do.
“Doing more with less is becoming both figurative and now literal,
even among senior-executive ranks,” says a senior executive at a
large company. Says a manager at a medium-sized company, “The
company wants us to accomplish more e-business initiatives, but
with the same amount of people. I end up doing more and more of
the administrative, number-crunching, and training-of-users roles,
since we have no resources to pick those up.”