Timeline for Should I raise concerns about a co-worker possibly leaving?
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| Dec 8, 2022 at 7:56 | comment | added | cjs | @bharal This may be the first time you've heard of this, but it's hardly an unknown thing in the industry. At the last company in which I worked (a company that makes software for the financial industry) salary and bonuses were tied to job titles, so you generally knew how much someone was making just by seeing their job title on their business card. And I found that did make the company a more relaxing place to work. | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 15:20 | history | edited | Monica Cellio | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
I am implementing an edited suggested by somebody else and rejected by the author, because the condescending tone of the original is out of place on this site. If you object, raise on meta.
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| Nov 10, 2014 at 16:26 | comment | added | Ilmari Karonen | This culture of wages and bonuses being treated as confidential is indeed prevalent in some places and industries, but it's one I'd consider fundamentally dysfunctional. All it does is make it harder for employees to estimate the real value of their work, and thus keep them from bargaining efficiently in the employment marketplace. It's bad enough when companies try to enforce it in employment contracts (and when local laws let it be so enforced), but it's when employees start trying to enforce it on each other via peer pressure that it really becomes a self-perpetuating dysfunction. | |
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| Nov 7, 2014 at 11:10 | comment | added | bharal | @MSalters by way of explaining my "assumptions" ~ this is the first time i've ever heard of public bonuses, especially when the number is big enough to make someone (possibly, according to the OP) want to leave. I don't know how they do things in the Netherlands, but where I've worked (SF, NY, London & Sydney) you don't share your wage or bonus, it is a sackable offence. | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 11:05 | comment | added | MSalters | -1. Unfounded assumptions in the question. Bonuses are confidential? Often enough they are not, when the idea of a bonus is to inspire everyone to work harder in the future. The notion that "Joe is doomed" isn't even weirder, as that's not even based on flawed assumptions. I can't see the logic in that at all. | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 0:21 | history | edited | bharal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 6, 2014 at 23:36 | history | answered | bharal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |