January 9, 2025
Maybe it always is?
Compensation is a trainwreck right now. Let’s review the last few years:
👉Post-financial crisis until 2020.
A decade of good times where people got accustomed to salaries inching higher every year. Companies just baked it into the cost of doing business.
👉The COVID crash.
People either:
Realized how quickly their livelihood could disappear and learned to hustle, or
Thanked their lucky stars they hung on.
For companies, it was the first chance ...