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"I need a higher salary because I just got diagnosed with terminal cancer/had a special needs child/my wife broke her neck/my husband wants to be a stay at home
by jacalata 12y ago
"I need a higher salary because I just got diagnosed with terminal cancer/had a special needs child/my wife broke her neck/my husband wants to be a stay at home dad". How can you possibly expect to understand someone's needs without them explaining their personal amd medical issues? Are you assuming that nobody at the company has significant personal or medical issues at all, which could very clearly be seen as privilege?
- swombat 12y agoWe're in England, the NHS pays for most of this stuff here. Obviously no one is being forced to share their personal issues. All I'm arguing about here is whether someone's needs should be a part of the equation determining their pay. There's a stanford case study on AES, an energy company that employed 40'000 people and had similar compensation practices. Here's one of their values, quoted in the study: Fairness . . . the term `fairness' means `justice.' Often `fairness' is confused with `sameness' ... We don't mean that. AES aspires to give everyone special treatment. Everyone is unique ... And the effects of treating people justly in corporate systems and organizations can be profound. They scaled that value to an international, public corporation with tens of thousands of employees. Worth pondering instead of rejecting outright, no?