Companies to publish salary ranges in job adverts under new EU rules
The two reasons I disagree with publishing salaries and &quot;ranges&quot; are that a) the implicit collusion creates mean reversion that disadvantages talent, who can afford to leave and go where they are valued and b) the values behind it presume that a job is something paternalistic granted by a manager in return for supplication, and not due consideration for value offered. Together these create a race to the bottom in office culture, where people optimize to compete not on competence and value, but on debasing themselves and attrition with others.<p>Sure, if you are doing government work, (which is basically a sinecure anyway) this is fine, but any country that implements it will only ever be a kind of outsourced piecework shop, like a maquilladora or &quot;friendshoring,&quot; where the real talent who manages the work and handles the money will be in places with rational incentives.