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Wait, what happened to freely disclosing your salary to everyone? Remember the hashtag movement?? You mean to tell me that this is actually a bad idea?
by paulhauggis 11y ago
Wait, what happened to freely disclosing your salary to everyone? Remember the hashtag movement??
You mean to tell me that this is actually a bad idea?
- dantillberg 11y agoDisclosing your salary to fellow employees helps them by increasing their ability to bargain effectively with their employer. (and disclosing salaries to each other helps both of you) Similarly, disclosing your salary to a potential employer helps them by increasing their ability to bargain effectively with you.
- niccaluim 11y agoDisclosing to everyone would do away with the issues raised by the article. If everyone knew everyone's salary, there would be no underwater price-fixing scheme, and disclosing to recruiters would do no harm to you and your colleagues' negotiating positions.
- minimaxir 11y agoThe intent of the #talkpay movement was to identify disparities between employees of the same position, possibly due to extrinsic factors like gender: http://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/talkpay-topped-twitter http://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/talkpay-topped-twit... This article is more about negotiation.
- sageikosa 11y ago#demagoguery
- edgyswingset 11y agoThe Twitter movement was about gathering information so that those who are underpaid can realize how underpaid they are and potentially change that. This post seems to be more about at a personal level, and not giving in when the salary negotiations start.