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How much do you get paid? Don't answer that out loud.
你的工資是多少？先別說出來。
But put a number in your head.
在腦子里想一下。
Now: How much do you think the person sitting next to you gets paid? Again, don't answer out loud.
現在想想：你覺得鄰座的工資是多少？也別說出來。
At work, how much do you think the person sitting in the cubicle or the desk next to you gets paid? Do you know? Should you know?
你覺得辦公室里坐在旁邊的同事的工資又是多少？你知道嗎？你應該知道嗎？
Notice, it's a little uncomfortable for me to even ask you those questions.
問這些問題連我都覺得不太自在。
But admit it -- you kind of want to know.
但是承認吧--你有點想知道答案。
Most of us are uncomfortable with the idea of broadcasting our salary.
我們大多數人都不想告訴別人自己的工資。
We're not supposed to tell our neighbors, and we're definitely not supposed to tell our office neighbors.
我們不想把工資告訴鄰居，也絕對不想告訴辦公室的同事。
The assumed reason is that if everybody knew what everybody got paid, then all hell would break loose.
可能如果大家都知道別人的工資，就要天下大亂了。
There'd be arguments, there'd be fights, there might even be a few people who quit.
可能會出現爭吵，打架，甚至會有人辭職。
But what if secrecy is actually the reason for all that strife?
但如果這個秘密恰恰就是沖突的起因呢？
And what would happen if we removed that secrecy?
如果我們揭開這個秘密會發生什么呢？
What if openness actually increased the sense of fairness and collaboration inside a company?
公開薪資能不能增進公司內部的合作，還有公平感呢？
What would happen if we had total pay transparency?
如果完全公開薪資信息，那會發生什么呢？
For the past several years, I've been studying the corporate and entrepreneurial leaders
過去的幾年里，我一直在研究那些
who question the conventional wisdom about how to run a company.
質疑傳統經營理念的企業家和創業者。
And the question of pay keeps coming up. And the answers keep surprising.
而薪資待遇的問題不斷浮出水面。答案也在不斷挑戰傳統觀念。
