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"Do you not see the broken incentive system here? The more efficiently you work, the less you get paid." Changing the unit of time does not change this. You're
by pcmaffey 11y ago
"Do you not see the broken incentive system here? The more efficiently you work, the less you get paid."
Changing the unit of time does not change this. You're just making it easier for yourself to justify charging a full day even if it took you 2 hours. But you could just as easily apply your methods using hours or half-days or weeks.
If you're working 2 hours and charging 8, you should simply raise your rates, and for the next project, give a more accurate time estimate.
The first couple years especially, freelancers should be doing this from project to project. It negates the "broken incentive system."
- tptacek 11y agoI disagree that fake-work is as endemic to daily billing as it is to hourly. Regardless, maintaining an incentive to bill make- or fake-work is not the only reason to avoid hourly billing. I have something like a dozen more arguments in the links I posted, and elsewhere on the site.
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- someone7x 11y agoIsn't the larger point here that these larger units solve micromanagement problems without impacting the finished product? If not, then why stop at hours? Why not bill by the minute or second? The answer to why hours are superior to minutes is the same as why days are superior to hours. It's just a useful level of aggregation to mitigate tedium.