&gt; So if the company&#x27;s top priority really was to provide a great place to work, then logically, the employees should be paying it to work there.<p>Well, they <i>are</i>. One strong motivation for creating a really good place to work is to attract best-in-class staff without necessarily paying best-in-class wages. In that sense, your employees are paying you a chunk of their potential salary in order to work for you instead of the highest bidder.