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Why don't you care about your own productivity? Part of the agreement you struck with your employer is that you provide value, don't you want to provide that v
by diminoten 8y ago
Why don't you care about your own productivity? Part of the agreement you struck with your employer is that you provide value, don't you want to provide that value?
- ggm 8y agoAsymmetric agreement asymmetric benefit.
- notfromhere 8y agoIf you provide value X to an employer for payment Y, they're not going to increase your payment in proportion to your increase in productivity. Frequently employers won't give you any additional compensation for increased productivity. So the game theory really favors workers optimizing the time it takes to provide value X
- diminoten 8y agoThe agreement isn't for X, the agreement was for "whatever you can provide". You don't provide a unit of work, you provide "your brain as applied to the problems of the company". Game theory is for the company to fire you and find someone who will honor their contract...
- notfromhere 8y agoYour employer hires you to solve a problem, they don't get rights to unlimited productivity. You're held to a specific quality/output of work, and as long as that's satisfactory, you remain employed. The game theory is to produce enough quality/output to remain employed. An employee increasing their productivity without increased compensation for said productivity is a bit of a sucker.
- diminoten 8y agoThey hire you for whatever they hire you for. If you're hourly, sure what you said applies. Otherwise, no, they bought your brain. The game theory is to find the people who believe this, and to get rid of people who don't.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago> Otherwise, no, they bought your brain. No, they rent some of it. Like a cloud host; you don't own the hardware, you're timesharing. > The game theory is to find the people who believe this, and to get rid of people who don't. Companies prefer to hire suckers if they can, yes.
- diminoten 8y agoDepends on your contact with your employer. If you're exempt and not hourly, they don't rent your brain for a period of time, they rent it to solve a set of problems. The volume those problems, and the rate they expect you to solve them at is up to your employer. Their only limit is to not assign you so much work you quit. That's it.
- speedplane 8y ago>> The game theory is to find the people who believe this, and to get rid of people who don't. > Companies prefer to hire suckers if they can, yes. Pretty cynical, no? Obviously employers make more money off their employees than they pay them, otherwise they wouldn't be in business, but that doesn't make an employee a sucker.
- notfromhere 8y agoAn employee is definitely a sucker if they indefinitely keep increasing output without a rise in compensation.
- diminoten 8y agoYou can't/won't justify a rise in compensation without increasing output first.
- cmqq 8y agoThis is a stupid question. The employer is the one forcing constant distractions. You can (and I have done so) rebel against the distractions, but it is not going to make you popular. At best you'll be classified as a willing work horse.
- diminoten 8y agoIt's only a stupid question if you're not playing by the rules a ton of your colleagues/competitors are, which makes them a better pick than you.