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Careful about paying per unit of work. Your workers might throw quality out the window in order to get more quantity and thus more money...
by spydez 19y ago
Careful about paying per unit of work. Your workers might throw quality out the window in order to get more quantity and thus more money...
- jk4930 19y agoSpecify the unit's quality. Payment depends on compliance to the specification. One can agree to pay a basic monthly salary (we're talking about employees who are motivated by some income security) and make all else a variable income. One needs to find of course the balance between loyalty to the company (monthly steady income stream) and productivity (income by units). So it depends on both the startup and the workforce where to set the priorities.
- tim2 19y agoMeasuring quality of work in a startup is equivalent to predicting in the future how much of a contribution some work is making on the outcome. Conformance to rigid specifications is not the way to go.
- jk4930 19y agoMy entire text was "roughly speaking" because it depends on the startup's context and the founders' knowledge and abilities. I'm not talking about book-long specifications, but for sure you should have some requirements on unit functionality and code quality. And the unit's value is not about predicting the future but derives from your sales plan. This is about a startup already in a situation when it hires employees, so they usually have some historic data on the market and their own performance to base their guesses on.