{
  "id": 3597294,
  "title": "Microsoft Employees Just Saw Exactly What Their Job Is Worth. Your Startup Candidates Have No Idea. Here’s the Fix",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/microsoft-employees-just-saw-exactly-what-their-job-is-worth-your",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-26T21:30:44.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Inc.",
    "slug": "inc",
    "url": "https://www.inc.com/daniel-robbins/microsoft-employees-just-saw-exactly-what-their-job-is-worth-your-startup-candidates-have-no-idea-heres-the-fix/91396900"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The number on your equity offer is doing more recruiting work than ever, yet it’s a part of the offer candidates can’t really read. That’s a problem you should fix before your next hire.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}