Explain both sides - openly talking about how much you make with your coworkers

I do doctoral research around pay transparency... other posts covered the gist of it but to add facts behind it, the most famous and widely accepted studies show hard data that increasing pay transparency generally reduces productivity. In short, those that find out they are paid below average feel slighted and reduce effort, while those paid above average feel like they deserve it and do not work harder. Net result is a decrease in effort.

This is of course a broad generalization of the overall effect, and I have been researching more specific variation around industries, personality types, etc. that will hopefully show opportunities to reverse this negative effect because I believe that employees should be empowered with this kind of information.

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