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Re: Survey of workers’ views on salary transparency

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Post by tomalpha »

It doesn't inspire much faith in article's author when its title is:

    1 in 20 workers will quit if transparency laws reveal they are paid less than co-workers
and that is expanded lower down to be:

    4% will quit if revealed co-workers earn more money
Maybe it's all otherwise true and accurate, but it raises a warning flag for me about how good their methodology might be.

Re: Survey of workers’ views on salary transparency

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Post by grardb »

tomalpha wrote: post #3

It doesn't inspire much faith in article's author when its title is: 1 in 20 workers will quit if transparency laws reveal they are paid less than co-workers and that is expanded lower down to be: 4% will quit if revealed co-workers earn more money Maybe it's all otherwise true and accurate, but it raises a warning flag for me about how good their methodology might be.

I might be missing something, but what's the difference between those two statements?

I suppose that given the first sentence, you could argue that the number of would-be quitters would be different if they learned their coworkers earned more money through means other than transparency laws, but I'm guessing that's not what you're alluding to.

Re: Survey of workers’ views on salary transparency

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Post by O__________O »

tomalpha wrote: post #3

It doesn't inspire much faith in article's author when its title is: 1 in 20 workers will quit if transparency laws reveal they are paid less than co-workers and that is expanded lower down to be: 4% will quit if revealed co-workers earn more money Maybe it's all otherwise true and accurate, but it raises a warning flag for me about how good their methodology might be.

For clarity:

- 1 in 20 is 5%

- 1 in 25 is 4%

Re: Survey of workers’ views on salary transparency

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Post by jl6 »

> If they find out their co-workers are making more money to do the same job, they are likely to take action.

Here’s the rub: “same job”.

Sure, this is a reasonable attitude to take if it’s genuinely the same job and each worker is creating genuinely the same value.

But everywhere I’ve worked, comparable jobs are defined as graded job families, and it has been very obvious that there is a diverse range of work being done within a grade/job family, with individuals bringing a diverse range of experience, skills and performance.

For two individuals to have the “same job” is a rare thing in knowledge work.

Re: Survey of workers’ views on salary transparency

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Post by HelloNurse »

O__________O wrote: post #6
tomalpha wrote: post #3

It doesn't inspire much faith in article's author when its title is: 1 in 20 workers will quit if transparency laws reveal they are paid less than co-workers and that is expanded lower down to be: 4% will quit if revealed co-workers earn more money Maybe it's all otherwise true and accurate, but it raises a warning flag for me about how good their methodology might be.

For clarity: - 1 in 20 is 5% - 1 in 25 is 4%

Probably just casual rounding of a quantity and its reciprocal, without realizing that 4% vs 5% is a large difference.
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