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Alexander Turok's avatar

I'm pretty young and I've heard many variants of "what do women want?"

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G Gordon Worley III's avatar

I've definitely seen this kind of thing in my workplaces. Interestingly, I don't think anyone is consciously aware they're pursuing this sort of strategy as an employee, but it often shows up as vague demands for various supports of perks rather than direct asks for more money, which has always felt wildly inefficient to me, yet people can get really hung up on access to various perks they could easily buy for themselves more efficiently with a raise.

The common explanation given in the tech sector for this is that it's because people are bad at evaluating how much money they are willing to trade for choice between work environments and so must complete on perks sure to decreasing marginal value of additional salary, which I have always found hard to believe. This perhaps better explains the perks race among letaving tech firms, though.

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