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Re:Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality w... by timv on Saturday July 18, 2015 @07:13PM (#9909358)
Keeping salaries confidential solves all these problems

Only if the salary is the only way in which your peer is being rewarded.

These sorts of hostilities exist quite frequently in companies that don't share salary information, because rewards exist in lots of forms, including promotion, project assignments, shift scheduling, etc.

Imagine a company that decided to keep promotions secret to avoid hostilities.

Re:Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality w... by kragen on Sunday July 19, 2015 @03:30AM (#9910345)
Imagine a company that decided to keep promotions secret to avoid hostilities.

I think you just described Valve and similar "flat organizations".