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PayAnalytics a partner in the Universal Fair Pay Check

The Universal Fair Pay Check logo

The Berlin based Fair Pay Innovation Lab (FPI) is piloting the Universal Fair Pay Check, a standardized international method of ensuring fair pay. FPI has chosen PayAnalytics as its partner for the Universal Fair Pay Check.

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A PayAnalytics founder nominated for Nordic Women in Tech Awards 2020

Nordic Women in Tech Awards Logo

Nordic Women in Tech Awards has nominated one of our founders, Margrét Bjarnadóttir, in the category Entrepreneur of the year. We are super proud of Margrét and thankful for the nomination! See the list of all Nominees here.

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Watch Vidir Ragnarsson's lecture on how Reykjavik Energy closed their Pay Gap

Watch Vidir Ragnarsson's lecture on how Reykjavik Energy closed their Pay Gap

At the People Analytics & Future of Work conference in San Francisco last February Vidir Ragnarsson from Reykjavik Energy gave an insightful talk on how Reykjavik Energy tackled the task of measuring and closing their Gender Pay Gap within a few years.

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Margret Bjarnadottir wrote for Ms. Magazine: We're Not Waiting 200 Years to Close the Gender Pay Gap

Dr. Margret Bjarnadottir, the co-founder of PayAnalytics wrote an article for Ms. Magazine

The World Economic Forum estimates that it will take over 200 years to close the gender pay gap. No one should have the patience to wait that long. How can we accelerate change? The answer may lay in data and models with a good dose of transparency.

The journey starts with gathering the data and understanding the pay structure. Then companies move on to identifying areas for improvement and eliminating unexplained demographic pay gaps through corrective action—in other words, ensuring equal pay for equal work.

Read the full article on msmagazine.com

The New Business Venture Fund Invests in PayAnalytics

The New Business Venture Fund has invested $525,000 in the software company PayAnalytics.

The New Business Venture Fund has invested $525,000 in the software company PayAnalytics.

PayAnalytics has developed an equal pay cloud solution, and has grown rapidly in recent years. Its solution is already helping over 50 companies and organizations in Iceland close the gender pay gap, employing a total of 30,000 staff, or about 14% of the Icelandic labor market.

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Sjóvá the first listed company to receive a perfect GEMMAQ score in Nasdaq Iceland

Sjóvá Insurance

It is amazing to see one of our partners, the insurance company Sjóvá, perform so well. A company with 60% women on the board of directors and a female chair.

GEMMAQ rates companies in global markets based on how gender balanced their leadership is and is building a corporate gender equality and diversity rating and indexing system.

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The pay-equity efforts of Reykjavik Energy in focus

Geothermal Energy in Iceland

In a recent article, World-at-work set the spotlight on Reykjavík Energy and their pay equity work. Pay equity has been top-of-mind for Reykjavik Energy for quite some time, even before the topic was regularly making headlines.

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The National University Hospital of Iceland Uses the PayAnalytics Solution to Fight the Gender Pay Gap

Lúvísa Sigurðardóttir, Project Manager for The National University Hospital’s Equal Pay System. Sigurjón Pálsson, CEO of PayAnalytics. Ásta Bjarnadóttir, VP of HR at The National University Hospital.

The National University Hospital of Iceland has signed a contract to use PayAnalytics for their equal pay analyses.

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"How I did it" story on PayAnalytics published by Copenhagen Business School

Copenhagen Business School Photo

Copenhagen Business School @CBScph recently published a "How I did it" story on @PayAnalytics. Read the full story on the CBS website.

"Our goal was to build an easy-to-use application that puts analytics in the hands of HR managers. We have created a web platform that enables users to walk through the process of statistically measuring their pay gaps."

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Vidir Ragnarsson interview by Wiwo+ in Germany

A picture of the article from Wirtschaftswoche.

Vidir discusses the ways to close the gender pay gap at Reykjavik Energy, using PayAnalytics software with journalists at Wirtschaftswoche.

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The Guardian wrote about how Iceland got tough on gender pay gap

Picture of Reykjavik by @TimTrad

Guardian's European correspondent Jon Henley examines Iceland's legislative adjustments to address gender pay disparity, referencing Reykjavik Energy's CEO, which has employed PayAnalytics' software in their push for pay equality.

Full article on theguardian.com
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