[mietek]

> Surveys done shortly after this found that employees who went to the website and discovered they were paid below the median for their peers were much less satisfied on average with their jobs and more likely to express an intent to depart than those who were paid below the median but didn’t receive the prompt to compare their pay. So in this case, full pay transparency encouraged greater overall dissatisfaction and possibly turnover—the exact opposite of the power that full transparency has in the right situations to motivate employees and attract talent.

What really makes people unhappy: telling them that they are underpaid, or underpaying them?