Excellent post. Here are some personal experiences: 1. Keep salaries secret. I like this part. I do not like socialist way of deciding salaries. I worked at a

Excellent post. Here are some personal experiences: 1. Keep salaries secret. I like this part. I do not like socialist way of deciding salaries. I worked at a place where salaries were open and left within a year. 2. Give raises randomly Know several employers and CEO who do this as a policy. It is mostly like 'yeah lets give them $200 monthly raise' by making it sound like a big deal and then make them work on Christmas to recover it 3. No conferences Make fun of conferences before your employees. Tell them only bozos go to such idiotic nerdy places. We are cool guys we don't go there. I know several companies that work hard to deny their employees any networking opportunity. 4. Spy on them. Not aware. 5. Make a deal with competitors Dont know. 6. Promote corporate values I fell prey to this once. Not again. But the author has ignored trashtalking others. Saying things like "only morons work for google", "facebook is in death spiral". 7. Help them survive Correct. Innumerable examples of how employers use this techniq. This is most common when the employee is H1B. He/she feels indebted for getting the visa. If the employer does not have 401K plan that employer is not worth working for more than 2 years.