original publish date: 27th January, 2010

decades on …

It was never a culture-vs-pay argument. It was a complaint about pretending they’re interchangeable.

Who genuinely believes it’s one or the other?

transcript

Presenter: Research shows that people rate how they’re treated at work above financial reward.

Audience member: What are you doing to them?

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Annual Siberian Railworkers Survery 1904

Question 3:

Which of the following is more important to you?

(a) maintaining the current practice of not administering daily beatings; or

(b) an annual wage increase of one turnip per person per year.