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Workganics publishes its 2026 services overview
The current overview of the four Workganics practices: executives, law firms, remuneration and benefits, and strategic advisory.
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People and risk consulting
Specialist advice for complex people and business decisions.
Workganics is an independent people and risk consultancy. We advise boards, executives and law firms on remuneration, succession planning, pensions and governance and we stay involved through implementation.
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What Workganics does
Workganics provides people and risk consulting to boards, executives, law firms and pension-fund members.
We work where decisions are both technical and personal: executive and partner remuneration, succession programmes, pensions and retirement, governance and business risk.
Every engagement is led directly by the person doing the analysis, using our own resources and, where a project requires it, specialist partners. The objective is not to deliver a report: it is for the decision to be made and implemented.
Decisions we help clients make
- Who leads the business after the founder, and on what timetable
- How to reward executives and partners in a defensible way
- When retirement becomes financially viable
- What people and pension liabilities a transaction carries
- How to reduce cost and risk without losing critical capability
Business lines
Four specialist practices
Four specialist practices, each with its own client base, methods and technical depth.
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Consulting for Executives
Succession programmes, specialist remuneration studies and qualitative and quantitative retirement planning for owners, executives and leadership teams.
Learn more02Consulting for Law Firms
Partner remuneration, succession programmes, retirement planning, functional restructuring, merger and acquisition support, actuarial services and pension-system feasibility studies.
Learn more03Remuneration and Benefits
Technical and actuarial consulting for pension-fund members and participants, private retirement planning, pension projections and the design of fixed, variable and flexible remuneration programmes.
Learn more04Strategic and Business Advisory
Non-executive director support including remuneration committees, mergers and acquisitions, interim management, and support for startups and businesses in recovery or restructuring.
Learn moreOur approach
Advice that reaches implementation
We work alongside client teams rather than handing over a report. Each engagement moves through four stages.
- 01
Understand
We establish the facts: structures, commitments, current costs and what the organisation is actually trying to decide.
- 02
Design
We model realistic options, quantify each one and set out the trade-offs for the people who have to approve them.
- 03
Implement
We support the rollout: documentation, communication with those affected, and the practical steps the change requires.
- 04
Embed
We review how the change is holding, adjust where needed and leave the organisation able to run it without us.
Who we work with
Organisations and people we support
Law firms and professional services
Partnership structures where remuneration, succession and long-term pension commitments are decided collectively.
Family-owned and first-generation businesses
Owners preparing a succession that has to work commercially and hold the family together.
Startups and growing businesses
Young organisations that need professional people structures before scale makes improvisation expensive.
Organisations undergoing transactions
Buyers, sellers and merging firms where people and pension liabilities affect the value of the deal.
Organisations in restructuring or recovery
Businesses that must reduce cost and risk while keeping the people the recovery depends on.
Executives, partners and business owners
Individual advice on remuneration packages, retirement timing and the financial consequences of a career decision.
Pension-fund members and participants
Independent technical and actuarial support for those whose retirement depends on a pension fund.
Resources
Latest insights
ArticleRemuneration
Rethinking partner remuneration in law firms
Why partner pay models drift out of alignment with how firms actually create value — and what a structured review looks like.
6 min read
ArticlePensions and retirement
Reading your retirement projection: Social Security, CGA and ACT Bancários
Three regimes, three sets of rules and one question: what income will actually be available, and from when.
7 min read
People
Frederico Machado Jorge
Founder and Managing Partner
Actuary and consultant with four decades of experience in people and risk consulting in Portugal and across Europe.
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