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Re:Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer by ricardobeat on Thursday December 19, 2013 @02:00PM (#6936907)
"All else being equal" is a huge assumption. Will your company offer the same environment, flexibility, openness, remote work? You should first assume that Buffer keeps their employees very happy to be able to openly publish their salaries.
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Re:Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer by JonFish85 on Thursday December 19, 2013 @02:26PM (#6937143)
That's great, but what if Niel has a kid? Suddenly priorities are shuffled in a big way. Maybe he needs a 5% raise to afford <whatever it is that the kid needs>? Is it worth it to the company to lose the employee over 5% of salary?
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Re:Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer by jasonwocky on Thursday December 19, 2013 @05:44PM (#6938504)
I think the point of the transparency is that they'd discuss a situation like this as a company.
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