> If an employee's impact is more valuable, why shouldn't that employee demand to be paid more? Because the valuation of an employee's contribution to an organ

> If an employee's impact is more valuable, why shouldn't that employee demand to be paid more? Because the valuation of an employee's contribution to an organization, as assessed by management, is usually bullshit. If the product succeeds, all the employees benefit, and if the product fails, all employees suffer together. Now, for a large organization, the ability for individual employees to influence revenue or profit at the organization level is negligible, so you need different strategies for compensating your employees. And the article concedes their approach won't scale past a certain company size.