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Wage wars | Is pay secrecy among employees a good or bad thing?

Is pay secrecy among employees a good or bad thing?
Is pay secrecy among employees a good or bad thing?

The ways colleagues interact with one another has changed in almost every way in the past 50 years.

LinkedIn has opened the opportunity for professionals to build their brand and share their opinion, making professional interactions more personal. While the pandemic, which brought about widespread remote work, made communication even more personable.

Clearly, the days of hyper-corporate interactions in the workplace are long gone, with an increasing number of workers, especially Gen Z and Millennials, valuing genuineness and authenticity over extreme professionalism. A socialised workplace norm that has seen some change is the etiquette around sharing salaries.#

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