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> My best idea is ‘pay people more,’ but that doesn’t sound so compelling as a pitch. I would not accept a position that paid for on-call, even if they paid mo
by teeray 5y ago
> My best idea is ‘pay people more,’ but that doesn’t sound so compelling as a pitch.
I would not accept a position that paid for on-call, even if they paid more. That just legitimizes encroaching on personal time and likely will make it happen more often. Pay me instead in equivalent PTO (or greater) so that there is a stronger forcing function to reduce pages.
- b3morales 5y agoI like this, but of course it collides with the trend towards only offering unspecified (so-called "unlimited") PTO.
- teeray 5y agoI also add a mandatory annual minimum PTO rider when it’s “unlimited”
- dilyevsky 5y agoAt google you could choose either 1/3-2/3 of your hourly pay (base) for each hour of being oncall outside of 9-5 or equivalent number of hours of additional pto. Best oncall comp structure I’ve seen ever since. Somehow people like to parrot only employee unfriendly practices from big corps…