Such a capitalistic way of dealing with things, hiding how much you are being paid isn’t the way to retain talent, the way to retain talent is to make sure everyone is getting paid fairly.
Honestly, I sympathise with high paid people at the BBC who have to constantly justify how much they get paid. Nobody wants to do that.
Can this please be the excuse to sack Steve Wright?
It’s tough to persuade a presenter to go on telly and say that train platform staff should be getting a real terms pay cut for the good of the economy while their £300k salary is posted for all to see.
To be honest they could just stop talking complete bollocks and get the automated train voice to say the time, the song title and read out the headlines and it would improve drastically.
I used to work in the workshop where they had radio 2 on all. Day. Long. And I was only stopped from a multiple murder suicide because a global pandemic happened.
Opposing view points on this, the talent is with the individual and can be irreplaceable. However maybe there’s a pay rate which the BBC as a public broadcaster cannot reach and they should let someone else takeover.
The BBC as an organisation is very good at nurturing talent and is respected and sought out employer. So there’s an endless stream of potential on offer.
Except you don’t want public to covering training costs for the benefits to be reaped elsewhere. So maybe in rare justifiable circumstances, where there’s a bankable commodity then competitive commercial rates need to be offered except I don’t think the public is accepting of stars earning six or seven figures so maybe it’s right that they hide it within their commercial arm, just as they do with the likes of Sir David Attenborough already and sadly dozens/hundreds more.
Didn’t ITV poach Peston by offering him double what the BBC paid him and a brief to basically do/ask whatever he wanted of politicians?
Must be hard to keep your staff if your rivals know what money they are on and can just scoop them up with better offers. Also must be hard not expressing an opinion. Waste of years of training too.
How does hiding salaries help a company retain talent?
They’d better fucking not while it’s still funded by taxation.
No need for all these high paid presenters. I’m sure there’s amazing talent out there for £80-150k, they’re just never given a chance.
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Such a capitalistic way of dealing with things, hiding how much you are being paid isn’t the way to retain talent, the way to retain talent is to make sure everyone is getting paid fairly.
Honestly, I sympathise with high paid people at the BBC who have to constantly justify how much they get paid. Nobody wants to do that.
Can this please be the excuse to sack Steve Wright?
It’s tough to persuade a presenter to go on telly and say that train platform staff should be getting a real terms pay cut for the good of the economy while their £300k salary is posted for all to see.
To be honest they could just stop talking complete bollocks and get the automated train voice to say the time, the song title and read out the headlines and it would improve drastically.
I used to work in the workshop where they had radio 2 on all. Day. Long. And I was only stopped from a multiple murder suicide because a global pandemic happened.
Opposing view points on this, the talent is with the individual and can be irreplaceable. However maybe there’s a pay rate which the BBC as a public broadcaster cannot reach and they should let someone else takeover.
The BBC as an organisation is very good at nurturing talent and is respected and sought out employer. So there’s an endless stream of potential on offer.
Except you don’t want public to covering training costs for the benefits to be reaped elsewhere. So maybe in rare justifiable circumstances, where there’s a bankable commodity then competitive commercial rates need to be offered except I don’t think the public is accepting of stars earning six or seven figures so maybe it’s right that they hide it within their commercial arm, just as they do with the likes of Sir David Attenborough already and sadly dozens/hundreds more.
Didn’t ITV poach Peston by offering him double what the BBC paid him and a brief to basically do/ask whatever he wanted of politicians?
Must be hard to keep your staff if your rivals know what money they are on and can just scoop them up with better offers. Also must be hard not expressing an opinion. Waste of years of training too.
How does hiding salaries help a company retain talent?
They’d better fucking not while it’s still funded by taxation.
No need for all these high paid presenters. I’m sure there’s amazing talent out there for £80-150k, they’re just never given a chance.