Mercer
is the world’s largest human resources consulting firm. It has been ranked the #1 HR Consultant. Mercer spends a lot of resources on building its expertise and is a subsidiary of parent company Marsh & McLennan. It is also the world’s largest outsourced asset manager with over US$300 billion outsourced assets under management and US$15 trillion under advisement in total. Headquartered in New York City, the firm operates in more than 130 countries, and in 2019 was the largest provider of outsourced chief investment officers. It has numerous subdivisions concentrating on specific industry sectors such as Mercer Government Human Services Consulting among others.
If you’re not in the HR world but the Mercer name sounds familiar to you, that’s because you’ve seen its surveys. The firm conducts tons of them! A couple of interesting ones: a worldwide cost of living survey and an employee holiday entitlements around the world survey. If you’ve ever been curious about how much these types of surveys cost, Mercer even publishes that information on its site.
Mercer spends a lot of resources on building its expertise – hosting annual global conferences, publishing world-wide surveys, and issuing regular newsletters and webcasts, to name a few. Its signature events include the M&A Ready™ 2-day Workshop for HR professionals managing M&A transitions.
For the most part, Mercer is a prestigious company. With its long history of acquisitions it will often buy a company that caters to your specific industry as it did with Mercer Government Human Services Consulting. Mercer will focus purely on the human resources aspect of your business. It can handle all aspects of your companies HR department. You don’t need to worry about the nuts and bolts of the tedious HR responsibilities and just focus on the fun team building aspects.
For more information, visit their website: www.mercer.com
