To be fair, the company's goal is to pay enough to attract and retain the right talent, not to keep up with inflation. e.g. if everyone else in the market is gi

To be fair, the company's goal is to pay enough to attract and retain the right talent, not to keep up with inflation. e.g. if everyone else in the market is giving 0%, why would they give 6%? Also, I assume employees would be pretty upset (I would be) if they got -2% if there is deflation happening, so seems a bit of a double standard there. Long way of saying I think tying increase to inflation is kinda silly.