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Promoting Mediocrity: Why Employers Don't Always Reward the Best Talent

Find Out Why Companies Go with "Known Talent" Instead of Up-and-Comers

Perception is Reality

The dynamic is less significant for positions that are not, as Terviö puts it, "publicly observable." If it is not obvious from the outside that a worker is achieving great things, he or she "cannot quickly renegotiate up their salary, because they cannot go to competing employers and show that they really are so good."

 

  • Sarah Shemkus

    Sarah Shemkus is an award-winning freelance journalist, marketing enthusiast, accomplished baker, occasional globetrotter and total nerd (with a particular fondness for spreadsheets). Most recently, she reported on business and real estate … Read more...