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Why do this? I don't understand ... am I just being too old school / narrow minded about this?

• mattmanser 10y ago
  It's part of their ethos, be totally transparent on how much everyone gets paid. You can't negotiate or ask for a different salary, there's a calculation. They've got blog posts about it. https://open.buffer.com/introducing-open-salaries-at-buffer-including-our-transparent-formula-and-all-individual-salaries/ https://open.buffer.com/introducing-open-salaries-at-buffer-...
  • vollmond 10y ago
    IIRC, Fog Creek does the same and also have some explanatory posts.
  • juliand 10y ago
    Not only salaries but also expenses and income, among other things.
• quonn 10y ago
  I have several friends who have received large salary increases when they were about to quit. This clearly shows that they were payed too little before. The kind of transparency buffer shows in this sheet can prevent such a situation.
• kyleashipley 10y ago
  Having a transparent formula for salary limits or removes the effects of negotiation, which likely benefits engineers (typically bad at negotiating compared to e.g. sales people) and women/minorities (worried about increasing "otherness" further and sometimes lower leverage, at least in tech). There are potential downsides such as increased politics or income inequality pressures, but it seems like a viable policy at least. I'm curious how someone like Google's Laszlo Bock would respond to this approach in comparison to their "pay unfairly"[1] mentality. [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/google-policy-to-pay-unfairly-2015-4 http://www.businessinsider.com/google-policy-to-pay-unfairly...