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Raising everyone's salary serves as a permanent increase in compensation. It's very difficult to back-pedal from a salary increase. Other perks, which may boil
by berdon 8y ago
Raising everyone's salary serves as a permanent increase in compensation. It's very difficult to back-pedal from a salary increase. Other perks, which may boil down to monetary compensation, can be added/removed at will with far less push-back.
I vaguely remember a story one time about google (or microsoft) and towels that an old manager told me. But I can't remember what it was. :(
- hinkley 8y agoOh god. The towels. That may have been the longest thread on Mini Microsoft ever. It was talked about for weeks. They saved $100,000 on towels and how many developers stood around the water cooler for hours complaining about it? I bet they lost more than that in labor costs.
- jdsully 8y agoMicrosoft has showers for people who bike to work with fresh towels provided. HR tried to remove that perk - probably thinking nobody would care because only a few people used it. Turns out a lot of people cared.
- flukus 8y ago>Raising everyone's salary serves as a permanent increase in compensation. It's very difficult to back-pedal from a salary increase. Even with google chipping in aren't we talking a decade or more to pay off a student loan? What percentage would even still be at google by then? For all practical purposes it seems like a permanent increase. Is it more about weird accounting?