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Just after the First World War a big American company put out a policy memorandum entitled “Forbidding discussion among employees of salary received.” It threatened to “instantly discharge people” who disclosed their “confidential” salaries in order to avoid invidious comparison and dissatisfaction.
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Furnham, A. (2009). Pay secrecy. In: People Management in Turbulent Times. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230239616_43
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