Mercer is becoming Marsh.

Connecting workforce decisions to business outcomes

Aligning workforce and rewards insight with business priorities can help organizations improve productivity, evolve more quickly, and create measurable business value. Marsh can help drive business performance by transforming work and the workforce.
  • Business and human resource (HR) strategies are misaligned.
  • Talent strategy components are not equipped for the future shape of work.
  • Talent practices are misaligned with business priorities.
  • Workforce strategies are not keeping pace with business model changes.
  • Executive compensation

    Design competitive executive compensation and policies that align with business strategy while attracting and incentivizing top talent.
  • Employee rewards

    Use the world's largest and most comprehensive remuneration data, insights, and research – so you can be sure you are making the right employee compensation decisions.
  • Job and career architecture

    It’s an employee-centric environment. To achieve optimal internal fairness and external competitiveness, it’s essential to establish a robust career architecture framework with consistent job analysis and job evaluation methodology.
  • Skills-powered talent strategy

    Transform your workforce with skills-powered talent management. Reinvent your talent and reward programs around skills.
  • Talent assessment

    Gain talent foresight for real business advantage, unlock the full potential of your workforce and empower your leaders to make talent decisions that deliver sustainable business growth.
  • Talent mobility

    Talent mobility considerations and costs are escalating. Organizations need mobility that delivers business value while containing costs.
  • Talent strategy

    Reset your future-of-work agenda and renew the employer/employee relationship, pioneer workplace and workforce design, and create a differentiated employee experience.
  • Pay transparency and employee value proposition

    Enhance pay transparency and the employee value proposition (EVP) to drive fairness, opportunity and engagement across the workforce.
  • Employee experience

    Create a compelling employee experience strategy that is positive and distinct to attract and retain quality talent.
  • Workforce transformation

    Reimagine your organization’s culture, structure, work, and workforce to drive performance and agility in any business environment.
  • Work and skills

    As they adapt to uncertainty and the rise of AI, employers are recognizing that becoming skills-powered enables them to respond with greater agility and efficiency while also improving productivity.
  • HR transformation

    With technology doing the busy work, the HR function takes the lead on talent strategies that power both business and people resilience.
  • Change management

    Transformation demands firmwide strategic alignment. Keep stakeholders engaged through proactive planning and clear communication.
  • Digital implementation

    Leading HR teams are using analytics and digital tools for stronger performance, world-class engagement and demonstrable ROI.
  • M&A advisory

    Leadership, culture and skills are vital to a deal’s success. Address people issues at every stage to help maximize value creation.

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