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Imagine you make $300 for every hour someone spends and you pay them $100. Crude, and you can disagree with the numbers, but this is the general idea when emplo
by quickthrower2 4y ago
Imagine you make $300 for every hour someone spends and you pay them $100. Crude, and you can disagree with the numbers, but this is the general idea when employing people.
You get 4 hours a week for free, you make $1200 - $0 = $1200
You get 40 hours a week for $4000, you make $12000 - $4000 = $8000
By hiring them, you make more profit.
You could try to get 10 people doing 4 hours a week for free, but maybe there is a limit to the number of people willing. Let alone the coordination and efficiency advantage of dedicating more time per week to tasks.
- cestith 4y agoYou also get to align their projects within your codebase to the rest of your efforts and strategic vision by way of paying them.
- charcircuit 4y agoYou can just talk with them to figure out something high impact that they would like to work on.
- cestith 4y agoYou can try. Let me know how that works out for you, especially when you need someone to fix a small niggling but uninteresting bug.
- charcircuit 4y agoPay another person to work 40 hours and now you make $9200 instead of $8000. By hiring them you are losing the work you would have gotten for free. As you said there is a limit for how many people are willing to work for free so you shouldn't get rid of the ones willing to work for free.