Leveraging Technology to Improve How Associates Engage with and Understand Their Pay and Benefits
  • Reviewing how employees have traditionally interacted with their pay and benefits with an eye for opportunities for improvement
  • What does a technological solution need to offer for a workforce as large and diverse as Walmart’s? How do we ensure the options we choose are robust, flexible, scalable, easy to learn, easy to use, and easy to update and upgrade over time?
  • Walking through our experience bringing these new tools online from pilot project to go-live on a large-scale rollout
  • Discussing what we have learned so far from our experience bringing these new capabilities to our employees
  • Demonstrating ROI not just in employee experience, but in retention rates, improved capabilities from other departments, and other performance improvements
  • What can other organizations learn from our experience?

Karen Light
Vice President, Total Rewards
Walmart

Karen Light has more than 20 years of experience as a senior HR executive responsible for People, Total Rewards, and Benefits Programs that drive talent retention and engagement, lead business transformations, and deploying solutions to decrease costs, reduce risk, and improve efficiency. At Walmart, she is responsible for supporting the well-being of more than 1.5 million associates.