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How Do We Feel When We Know What Our Colleagues Earn?

The Horizons Tracker

Similar laws exist in the other Scandinavian countries, and they have prompted much debate about the ethics of such a policy. The researchers hypothesized that poorer people stand to lose more via this comparison, not least as relative poverty measures highlight the relative lack of wealth people have compared to those around them.

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Is It Good When We Know How Much Our Boss Makes?

The Horizons Tracker

Similar laws exist in the other Scandinavian countries, and they have prompted much debate about the ethics of such a policy. The researchers hypothesized that poorer people stand to lose more via this comparison, not least as relative poverty measures highlight the relative lack of wealth people have compared to those around them.

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When Did the U.S. Stop Seeing Teachers as Professionals?

Harvard Business Review

Often its members join in a professional organization, local, state, or national, which enunciates standards and ethics of professional performance sometimes with the powers of enforcement.” ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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What Do Millennials Really Want at Work?

Harvard Business Review

” As Elspeth Reeve wrote in The Atlantic in 2013 “It’s not that people born after 1980 are narcissists, it’s that young people are narcissists, and they get over themselves as they get older.” ” Even the most widely accepted stereotypes about Millennials appear to be suspect.

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