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If you actually want democracy and fairness, make the whole thing a co-op. Sure, it's good to reveal salaries. The "don't tell the others what you make" common
by quadrangle 11y ago
If you actually want democracy and fairness, make the whole thing a co-op.
Sure, it's good to reveal salaries. The "don't tell the others what you make" common thing from management is actually a way to keep employees disconnected and powerless so they don't organize. I'm not sure the revealing of salaries has to go along with this complex political system they've invented. Co-ops already have worked out ways to deal with these things. We don't need constant wheel-reinvention.
- lukewrites 11y agoAbsolutely. If you want a democratic workplace, form a co-op. If anyone's interested in reading about cooperativism in the tech world, a starting point is http://techworker.coop/ http://techworker.coop/ I can't think of many tech companies that are coops. Plausible Labs, developers of VoodooPad (https://plausible.coop/voodoopad/ https://plausible.coop/voodoopad/), is the one that springs to mind first. Most of the other coops I know of are small design/development studios. Can anyone else name any tech coops?
- walshemj 11y agoPoptel in the UK was one and quite well known in the UK Coop movement. Unfortunetly we went bust :-(