I've noticed an absolutely fantastic increase in the number of my employees who just refuse to work beyond 40 hours without compensation. Many refuse to do it e

I've noticed an absolutely fantastic increase in the number of my employees who just refuse to work beyond 40 hours without compensation. Many refuse to do it even with compensation. It used to be I had like 1 dev who was that way. He come in at 10. He left at 6. Period. Any "overtime" was an immediate PTO accrual, without exemption. He'd work a Saturday, but he was taking off Monday. The rest of the team worked whatever was required of them. It created a lot perverse incentives for me, my co-owner, and our clients. If we kept hitting impossible deadlines, why wouldn't our clients keep asking it of us? Why wouldn't we keep saying yes to them? It made fiscal sense to do so. Clients were happy. We made more money. Staff largely didn't complain. Now, the "workaholics" are a lot more rare, and we're a lot more careful about it. If someone works over 40 hours, we compensate for that, salaried or not. It's called overtime, and we actually take a lower-margin on the hourly rate. If we're making our team work more than 40 hours, we fucked up. We deserve to make less money. We also charge a "rush rate" to clients, because while we're happy to help them out, the team deserves to be compensated. We've only had one client push back on it, and we fired them. The staff is a lot happier, our clients have adjusted to the new expectations, and our staff churn has lowered.