Salary Transparency Is Changing Everything — Mike Owen, Former Microsoft Employee and Transparency Advocate
Four Fs Podcast: Leadership, Entrepreneurship, & Reinvention | Stories From Founders|Veterans|Execs · 2025-08-05 · 1h 15m
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Former Microsoft strategist Mike Owen makes the case for radical salary transparency — and explains why companies that resist it are losing their best people. Salary transparency isn't a trend — it's a reckoning. And most companies are on the wrong side of it. Former Microsoft employee Mike Owen has seen the inside of corporate compensation and he's not afraid to tell the truth. In this direct conversation with Jeff Cluff, Mike Owen breaks down why salary transparency matters more than ever, how pay equity failures are driving top talent away, and what both employees and employers need to understand about the future of compensation.