Re:The scourge of job title inflation
by thenoblesunfish on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @12:41AM
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The title change itself has real value to people. People love to feel a sense of progress, and they love to feel appreciated. Promoting the same person twicw over N years, instead of once, may cost the same but will make the employee happier. That's the free part.
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Re:The scourge of job title inflation
by denton-scratch on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @08:56AM
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> The title change itself has real value to people.
Not to me. A "title promotion" without a pay rise would be demotivating, and lead me to wonder what I had to do to get a pay rise - like, leave, maybe.
Re:The scourge of job title inflation
by thenoblesunfish on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @03:29PM
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That's fair - my first sentence maybe isn't always true in isolation , but I think in the context of the second one it is. Obviously it'd be ideal to invent new ranks between the existing ones, instead of the inflation.
And just like monetary inflation, this inflation's cost is hidden in the devaluation of the inflated commodity. 'Senior Engineer' used to be a title that people valued highly, as a result of the years of work it took to earn. Now nobody's impressed by such a title.