# Employers/employees have different views on what's important

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employers-employees-have-different-views-on-whats-important/346332>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 27, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employers-employees-have-different-views-on-whats-important/346332 "2006-02-27T17:08:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employers-employees-have-different-views-on-whats-important/346332/1 "2006-02-27T17:08:06Z")

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[Well, duh!](http://www.spherion.com/press/releases/2005/Emerging_Workforce.jsp)

But it is very interesting that employers and employees have almost diametrically opposed view on almost every aspect of what’s important to keep employees on the job, in this survey conducted by an employment agency that I found. The fact that employees view financial compensation as number one is no suprise, but are employers so fucking stupid that they honestly think it comes right down near the bottom, beneath a lot of intangibles like “Workplace culture”?

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employers-employees-have-different-views-on-whats-important/346332/2 "2006-02-27T17:28:33Z")

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That’s because HR professionals always stipulate that the employer is paying a competitive salary – and the employer always assumes it is competitive.

Once you take compensation out of the mix, the list makes more sense.

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**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employers-employees-have-different-views-on-whats-important/346332/3 "2006-02-27T21:47:16Z")

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Employers probably know that pay is the most important thing, but they can’t treat it that way. I think the employer list is colored by what the employer can control, and in today’s economy, employees and employee pay are seen as financial liabilities, not resorces.