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I never understood this. Pay people half the wage for half their time, hire twice the staff. Get a significant increase in value produced for the same money. I
by glastra 9y ago
I never understood this. Pay people half the wage for half their time, hire twice the staff. Get a significant increase in value produced for the same money.
I, for one, would accept half pay for half work. And I suspect others too.
- emodendroket 9y agoThere are more costs to an employee than just their wages
- glastra 9y agoAll direct costs that I know of are proportional to the employee's wage. Could you elaborate a bit and tell us what other costs you are thinking about?
- emodendroket 9y agoRecruiting and training for all, and for the more fortunate among us benefits like health insurance, transit benefits, etc.
- fnordsensei 9y agoAdditionally, handing over non-trivial tasks to someone else carries a non-trivial cost.
- abakker 9y agoExactly. The term Total Employee Compensation might be something worth looking up. Of course, if you can just use gig workers...
- comment123456 9y agoIf you think about it the less "productive" you are the more "productive" the people extracting the value from your job will be. That is if you work more and earn less then whoever captures the difference in value produced would have augmented their productivity. It all depends where you measure the ratio and in which terms. Parasites are always the most productive if you don't measure in absolute terms. The same happens among countries.
- adrianN 9y agoUnfortunately then you have to communicate with twice as many people. Communication overhead is real and doubling team sizes can kill projects.