It's interesting. I don't see this as an employers pony show (and I'm both someone who looks for jobs as well as hires), I see it as looking for an equitable a

It's interesting. I don't see this as an employers pony show (and I'm both someone who looks for jobs as well as hires), I see it as looking for an equitable arrangement where someone interested in a job gets together with someone interested in hiring them. Both have a need and the aim is to mutually satisfy that in a way both parties find acceptable. Paying someone who isn't sold on a job and a company to come in for a day seems to me to be the wrong solution to the problem. The persons questions and doubts can almost certainly be addressed (or not) in a far more time efficient way at which point they're in a situation where they can work out whether a day is a good use of their time. The real question seems to me to be how can we get it so that day, if they choose to attend the interview, is a good use of their time, rather than paying them because there's a high chance it's being wasted. We can value someone's time by paying for it, or by doing what we can to make it time well spent. I think we should try to do the second one rather than the first.