Why did you move compensation decisions completely away from managers?
Replied byKenny mendes
Chief People Officer at Superhuman
Niche: AI
Revenue: Not Publicly Disclosed/month
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Started: 2015
In typical systems, the highest-paid person in the calibration room decides who gets paid what, which limits compensation growth for individual contributors. By removing managers from setting compensation, we centralized decisions within the people team. This allows us to deliver compensation messages with higher retentive value and prevent empire-building.
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