When the Boss Says, 'Don't Tell Your Coworkers How Much You Get Paid'

Re:When the Boss Says, 'Don't Tell Your Coworkers How Much Y... by cauterized on Sunday January 25, 2015 @11:51AM (#8943328)

Given that employees only stay for a couple years on average anyway these days, you're far more likely to lose either a male or female employee to a job switch than to lose a female employee to maternity leave. It's a highly overestimated risk. Not to mention extremely unfair to women who don't have kids.

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Re:When the Boss Says, 'Don't Tell Your Coworkers How Much Y... by tbrownaw on Sunday January 25, 2015 @06:22PM (#8944684)

Given that employees only stay for a couple years on average anyway these days

All 8 people on my team have been around longer than that. I've been there 8 years, and the other senior person has been around slightly longer. Our boss has been with the company for I think 17+ years. (And our old boss, who took the other half when the team got split in a reorg, has been with the company for 30+ years.)

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/tenure.nr0.htm says: """The median number of years that wage and salary workers had been with their current employer was 4.6 years in January 2014, unchanged from January 2012"""

"""In January 2014, median employee tenure (the point at which half of all workers had more tenure and half had less tenure) for men was 4.7 years, unchanged from January 2012. For women, median tenure in January 2014 was 4.5 years, about unchanged from January 2012. Among men, 30 percent of wage and salary workers had 10 years or more of tenure with their current employer, compared with 28 percent for women. (See tables 1 and 3.)"""

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Re:When the Boss Says, 'Don't Tell Your Coworkers How Much Y... by TheLoneWolfling on Sunday January 25, 2015 @11:58AM (#8943360)

[Citation needed]

I have been linking the numbers behind my arguments. If you wish to show the numbers behind yours, I would be more than happy to discuss them.

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