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I can't really disagree with this, but am left in conflict: Information should be free, but shouldn't companies be free to a) negotiate in their own best inte

• diN0bot 7y ago
  why should they? it all depends on the world you want to live in and who gets to be empowered.
• eropple 7y ago
  Almost every company that hires software developers are corporations or another limited-liability structure, such as an LLC. These entities exist at the sufferance of the society that grants that charter. They have no natural rights of any kind and they are granted the opportunity to exist so long as they provide benefits to the society granting that charter. So you're asking what is, to me, the wrong question. To me, a more valuable question to community, society, and humanity is "why are we not putting them in a hammerlock and demanding decency?". Like--is there economic benefit to hiding this stuff from workers? Or is there greater economic benefit to at least some significant level of transparency with applicants and with workers after they're hired? My guess is that that transparency is of significant social, as well as economic, value.
• mcv 7y ago
  > b) use NDAs? Not for information that shouldn't be secret. You use NDAs for trade secrets, not for mere salary information.