> "The company" can't appreciate anything: it's just a corporate structure. Does the company regularly¹ adjust worker wages to account for inflation and employ

> "The company" can't appreciate anything: it's just a corporate structure. Does the company regularly¹ adjust worker wages to account for inflation and employee growth? (I.e., a two-year tenure employee should be worth more than a 0-year employee simply because they know how stuff in the company functions. I.e., they don't need to be trained!) That, in rough English, is "appreciating" it. Yes, normally, there's some lip service the company will give, but actual rewards in the form of compensation is the real "appreciation". But a surprising number of employers, AFAICT, don't do that. Shockingly, SWEs tend to jump ship a bit after 2 years of not getting anywhere. (And write their own salary adjustments on the jump.) It's incredibly detrimental to continually hemorrage that experience, but I feel like places I've been at don't get it for two reasons: management is too disconnected to know it, and it's all they've ever known, so they don't know how bad it is, as they've no relative basis to judge. Dunning–Kruger, essentially. ¹I'd argue yearly, but at least bi-yearly.