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Big Companies Don’t Pay as Well as They Used To

Harvard Business Review

It’s hard to say, since a lot of other things happened in those same decades: the decline of unions, an explosion of information technology, a new round of globalization, and the dramatic rise in CEO pay. As firms restructured around one or a few competencies or occupations, the thinking goes, wages converged toward the market rate.

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Corporate Inequality Is the Defining Fact of Business Today

Harvard Business Review

If you’re, say, an HR manager who happened to take a job at Chobani early on, your compensation suddenly looks considerably better than many of your peers. The competition story revolves around digital technology. “Companies are restructuring from an industry focus to an occupational focus,” he told me.