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The fundamental problem in my opinion is that people should not be paid for their time, they should be paid for their actual work output, that’s the secret of p
by jb1991 5y ago
The fundamental problem in my opinion is that people should not be paid for their time, they should be paid for their actual work output, that’s the secret of productivity —- if you simply pay someone on the clock, whether by the hour or by a salary, you’re inviting them to waste time.
- TeeMassive 5y agoI think this might be good for very small "prototype and forget" kind of jobs which are mostly filled by consultants anyway. But for everything else that requires expertise and skills which are not shared equally given the vastness of the tech world this is just not a good approach IMO.
- jb1991 5y agoI don’t understand why disparities in expertise would have an effect on this? Some people take longer to complete a task, others take less, the task is a value, you pay for the work output. I suppose it’s different situations where people have a stake in the company, like ownership, who are helping to actually steward its direction. But for most of us that’s not really the case.
- TeeMassive 5y ago> I don’t understand why disparities in expertise would have an effect on this? Some people take longer to complete a task, others take less, the task is a value, you pay for the work output. In programming (and in tech in general) the more a developer has experience the more he will be productive by a factor that can go in the hundreds. I can probably could not resolve a off by one error in a nodeJS code base because I know neither node nor js, but a mediocre full time node js dev could easily.