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P. CaldwellPeople Opshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9819-0_6

6. Reward

Patrick Caldwell1  
(1)
London, UK
 

In this chapter I’m grouping together all things compensation, equity, and benefits into the catch-all that is reward. And, if we’re joining a startup, our first interaction with reward would have happened right at the start of the last chapter on recruitment (hopefully because of pay transparency!).

I spend a lot of time thinking about reward, and in companies of all sizes too, not just startups. It’s an area I’ve made a lot of mistakes and felt like I’ve been continuously iterating, and as I alluded to earlier, even after over a decade of working ...

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