Lynda Gratton: The business case for greater income equality

Submitted 8 February 2010

Read Lynda Gratton in the Financial Times

[Wilkinson and Pickett's] argument is that societies which are very unequal have all sorts of problems, and I have a feeling that the same is true for companies,” she says. “I think one has to be very careful about what you pay people ... We’ve put far too much emphasis on remuneration and not enough emphasis on, for example, designing jobs that people find interesting, the creation of autonomy, all the things that we know make for interesting work ... There’s a huge emphasis on who gets paid what, and that, in a sense, is the fuel of the consumer society, and I think we’re beginning to realise how dangerous that can be.