What is the danger of tying compensation growth strictly to promotions?

Kenny mendes
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Chief People Officer at Superhuman

Niche: AI
Revenue: Not Publicly Disclosed/month
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Started: 2015

When your largest compensation increases only happen through promotions, employees focus all of their energy on getting promoted rather than doing high-impact work. This leads to employee departures when career paths are blocked. It also leads to empire-building, where managers hire unnecessary personnel just to justify managing managers for a higher title.

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