Ep 10 - The Loyalty Tax: Why do they get paid more

Core Problem: Is a glaring value gap: new hires are being brought in with lucrative signing bonuses and market-adjusted salaries, while the veteran employees who stayed through the pandemic and various transitions are rewarded with pizza parties or surface-level perks. This creates a psychological breach. When a veteran sees the company spending five times as much to attract a stranger as they are to invest in a loyal performer, they stop seeing themselves as a partner and start seeing themselves as a cost to be managed.

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