
Should you know how much your colleagues earn?
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Is Money a Taboo Subject?
In the 19th century you could pull out an enormous book and check everybody's salary. Fast forward into the 21st century and this went online - for a period of about 10 years basically you could look at anybody's salary undetected. The FT isn't so revealing our salaries to each other but my serious point in Norway is that most Norwegian are part of collective bargaining agreements as well. This pay transparency is also thought to be one of the reasons why Norway has a lower gender pay gap than other countries. But obviously it still has a pretty sizable pay gap so it's not a panacea.
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