How much?! Breaking the workplace taboo  Packs of U.S. one
hundred dollar billas are counted at a bank in Westminster,
Colorado  View photo  Packs of U.S. one hundred dollar bills are
counted at a bank in Westminster, Colorado November 3, 2009.
Picture taken November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Rick Wilking  When Joel
Gascoigne launched his start-up, he outlined some founding
values of the fledgling company. One of the most important, he
stressed, was openness.  But Gascoigne's commitment to this
principle went further than most, and resulted in him
implementing a pay program at Buffer - the social media
publishing platform he co-founded in 2010 - that breaks the most
entrenched of workplace taboos: revealing one's salary.  Now,
rather than clandestinely speculating with colleagues at the
water cooler, each employee knows exactly how much their
colleagues earn, and Gascoigne is even considering making their
salaries public.  "We have run Buffer with a focus on self-
improvement since the beginning, where co-workers talk