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seems like a bad idea to me and i struggle to understand how not negotiating salaries makes it a more fair workplace.

• dragonwriter 12y ago
  > seems like a bad idea to me and i struggle to understand how not negotiating salaries makes it a more fair workplace. Paying people for the work they are being asked to do rather than for that adjusted by their negotiating ability is more fair (unless the work they are being asked to do is something closely relating to negotiating, in which case paying for negotiating ability could reasonably be interpreted as paying for job-related skills.) As for why it might be a good idea, if they set the non-negotiation offers at a level that pays what the average employee would end up with with negotiation, it suddenly becomes a more attractive place to apply for people whose skills are more in the area of the work of the job than in negotiating (and, until other firms adopt similar approaches, may produce a particularly strong retention advantage for those people.)