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vonmoltke on July 21, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: What happens when you talk about salaries at Googl...

> absolutely no upside to same from the perspective of management

Are you asserting that 95%+ of companies in the US have, and sometimes enforce, a policy that actively hurts them? I know companies do stupid shit from time to time, but you are basically saying salary confidentiality policies are some sort of mass MBA psychosis. After all, if there is "absolutely no upside" to management, why do we need labor laws to prohibit these policies in the first place?

Edit: So, I totally mis-parsed that statement. I thought you were stating there was no upside to management prohibiting salary discussions.

aaronem on July 21, 2015 | [–]

Where on Earth did you get the idea that labor laws prohibit employees from discussing remuneration with one another?

vonmoltke on July 21, 2015 | | [–]

Somehow I got thoroughly confused and thought the management comment referred to preventing, not permitting.

woah on July 21, 2015 | | [–]

Re read the comment.

vonmoltke on July 21, 2015 | | [–]

Aw crap, early morning parser failure.

fyolnish on July 21, 2015 | [–]

You need to read parent again

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