Have you ever thought if either your unpaid or overpaid? It is in comparison to your colleagues. There are reasonable reasons to want to find out. However, there are some why you might not be willing to. The pay transparency issue is enclosed in a web of allowed, economic and social threads. Nonetheless, one item remains transparent in a complicated topic: firms that make pay secrecy a compulsory whether formally are going against the labor laws. As a current survey portrays, discouraging salary sharing is a common thing among large tech companies. The question that might come up is whether tech organizations discourage pay transparency. The pioneers of Blind set out themselves to answer that question. Blind is a workplace application for tech workers. It is applied by thousands of employees of firms such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and even more. The Facebook saga brought members of the public into the attention of how their data can be used.
Blind sent a straightforward, true or false, one query survey to its clients. The question was whether at your current workplace, you have been discouraged by your HR or the management? The problem is based on whether it is allowed for you to discuss your compensation with your fellow workmates. After some days and almost 9000 responses, the feedback were back. An average of 60% of those who took part in the survey answered positively, “true.” The remaining percentage answered negatively, “false.” That is a clear showing that the majority had been entirely discouraged from talking about salaries. It is a doing that is not only problematic but also considered illegal.
The answer was more typical at specific companies in comparison to others. After shortlisting the results only to firms who had a minimum of 100 employees responding, blind noted something. It was that the worst of them all was Booking.com. Its results indicated that 71.29% answered true. Other firms followed it on the list. They included Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle, and finally eBay. It had the lowest scoring which came in as a surprise. It is due to its other transparency issues. Facebook had only 16.98%. The problem is hardly new. A survey done in 2011 by the institution of Women’s Policy Research made a finding. It showed that half of the hirers reportedly discouraged, prohibited or even punished discussions concerning compensations. However, there are rights on such issues of payment secrecy. Acknowledge your rights.
