Millennials are growing the culture of openness, but they're also responding to it.
Companies like SumAll and Buffer have implemented policies that make pay transparent to all employees, if not the entire world. Leaders at these companies believe, like millennials, that greater transparency creates less tension and ups people's performance.
"It's kind of crazy that in America, which is founded on this capitalistic vision of meritocracy, that we've obfuscated one of the core components of it," SumAll CEO Dane Atkinson told Business Insider in May.