Buffer -- open salaries

Buffer created a deck that describes the values

that make up its culture. The second on the list is
“Default to transparency,”

Demonstrated its commitment to transparency is

through revealing salaries of employees
throughout the organization. Through a publicly-
available spreadsheet, Buffer reveals the pay rate
of each employee by name

Each employee goes through a 45-day boot camp,

then qualifies for a salary under the business’s
formula, “Salary = job type X seniority X
experience + location (+ $10,000 if salary
choice).”

This type of transparency shows a level of

fairness that reduces employee frustration.

Prepared by:
Neil Majumder When employees know the role that factors like
20PGP131 seniority and experience play in determining pay,
those employees are more likely to understand
when another employee makes a higher salary
than they do.
 Prepared by:
Neil Majumder
Whole Foods -- GMO 20PGP131
transparency

• Whole Foods customers choose to patronize the chain

because they’re concerned about their health
• Whole Foods is working on becoming the first national
grocery chain to offer full GMO transparency with its
projects.
• With a goal of 2018 for full deployment, the project
will require every product sold as non-GMO to go
through a verification process.
• The company has always encouraged its suppliers to
put its products through a verification process, as well.
• Whole Foods hopes that by making this commitment
to GMO transparency, it will encourage industry-wide
transparency, with manufacturers and distributors
asking the questions that need to be asked.