> There is a cost to having on-call. Whether it's in the extra hours you are paying your engineers or other technicians, or sleep deprivation, dwindling motivat

> There is a cost to having on-call. Whether it's in the extra hours you are paying your engineers or other technicians, or sleep deprivation, dwindling motivation and performance, the cost is always there. I don't understand your take. Every single time I had a job with an oncall rotation, that oncall was paid. I was paid a bonus for being oncall, I was paid a bonus if during oncalls a pager fired outside of office hours, I was paid a bonus if I was pulled into an incident response outside of my oncall rotation. There was always a cost, and we were paid for it. Being oncall represented loosely a pay bump of around 15%. If that's not your case then I'm sorry but your problem is not the oncall rotation.