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In a lot of cases, all the fuss is to return amounts that are tiny, and yet the companies need to …

… In a lot of cases, all the fuss is to return amounts that are tiny, and yet the companies need to keep reaching out and trying to convince people. I got $0.06 (2) from my current employer. Because I've moved countries with them, I ended up falling in the category of needing to provide some bank/tax details. Of course, I wanted to log in with the silliest OS I could think of to test/mess with the tracking dashboard, and so somehow I managed to enter my DOB wrong, which even further increased the back-and-forward and emails involved (I was in the project, so the Payroll peeps involved probably didn't hold it against me). The re-calculation which led to the payment actually worked out that I had been underpaid in come calculations, but overpaid by far more (although still very, very little) in others. The company believed they couldn't offset, so all the fuss was for a tiny amount, which I felt I really wasn't owed anyway. …

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I had the opposite funny experience. When I worked for Global MegaCorp, they would occasionally send out phishing emails and if you clicked on a link it would be recorded and you would have to do trainings if you got fooled a couple times. Eventually everyone learned to stop clicking on links on emails. That's good. However, they sent out a yearly survey to get feedback from all the employees and no one clicked the link so they had to send out follow up emails saying the original emails are legit and it's ok to click the links in them.

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Or IRD (NZ tax dept.) a few years back sending out a survey on a .co.nz domain. Gave their security team a hard time for that one!

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ER

If the amounts are so tiny, couldn't the company just voluntarily overpay everyone by three dollars a year and call it a day?

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How hard would it be to print out a letter on company letterhead and circulate it in the office or snailmail it to the employees?

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