Every employee has a certain amount of overhead per employee whether that is 1:1s, hr, benefits, forms, etc and your cost to employer is beyond salary which the

Every employee has a certain amount of overhead per employee whether that is 1:1s, hr, benefits, forms, etc and your cost to employer is beyond salary which they are incentivized to minimize. This is overly simple: Let's make the incorrect assumption all hours are equal. - 40 hours making $4000, at $100/hr, with $1000 overhead, for a total cost of $5000, or 125/hr. - 32 hours making $3200, at 100/hr, with $1000 overhead is a total cost of $4200, 131/hr So let's ballpark and say you need 10% increase in productivity to make the cost of an equally efficient worker working 80% time. I'm not sure I've worked at a company that can estimate individual performance with that margin.