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It is possible to demotivate people by not paying enough but it is unlikely that such strong motivation is achieved purely from greater pay. A frustrating work
by nf05papsjfVbc 9y ago
It is possible to demotivate people by not paying enough but it is unlikely that such strong motivation is achieved purely from greater pay. A frustrating work environment will eventually cause th motivation to fizzle. One might continue working to keep the paycheque coming but it is a tall ask to keep the motivation levels high.
- js8 9y agoIn other words, the only thing paycheck motivates people to do is to stay in the environment of low motivation for too long. If any company thinks that it can fix the motivation with paycheck, they are very wrong and it will actually be more costly in the end.
- usrusr 9y agoJust giving a 20% raise across the board won't do much, and piecemeal rewards for visible successes will be even worse as they will cause more optimization for visibility than for success. I fully agree so far. But an engaging work environment with high pay will keep people a lot more motivated than the same environment with low pay. You can't fix a bad environment with higher wages, but higher wages make a good environment even better. As for open plan offices, it's not the open plan that is frustrating, it's the coworkers that the office is shared with. Nobody is a perfect office-mate all the time. But open plan multiplies not only negative but also positive morale, so I would not generally rule out the possibility that it can be net positive in places where all other factors are close enough to perfection and that the problems only really start when they are copied by the less exceptional. High pay would be an important contributing factor (maybe even one of many necessities), not a silver bullet solution.