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I feel this piece may have been written by someone at a C level position who has forgotten or not been in touch with regular workers for a long time. Is this just their validation to avoid compensating well performing individuals?

Don't know about you all, but recognition at the workplace - the company wide email with good start types, not the direct feedback types - has always felt insincere and manufactured to me.

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I skimmed it. Came away with a similar impression. I'm always deeply suspicious when people, from a position of extreme privilege and financial security, talk about how money doesn't matter.

I read a piece years ago that said the only true signal of recognition in business is money: everything else is just sentiment. Good wishes will not pay your bills or feed your family.

Bosses: if you really want to recognise good work, pay a bonus, or give a salary bump. Stock can also be a viable option, but everything else is simply fluff.

To the first point, 100%, the section about "extra zeroes in your bank account" is super tone deaf.

Absolutely. Extra zeroes matter a lot when you have only 6 to begin with.

Maybe I would feel differently if I was an investor / entrepreneur / thinker and not a simple, if well compensated, peasant.

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