Its a motivation to maintain employment, but not to put in your best effort. The cat’s out of the bag now that, generally speaking, your boss doesn’t care enough about you to differentiate how he treats you vs. any of your peers, so its only a chump who would continually give more than a token amount of effort or loyalty to that relationship. Job-hopping is more well rewarded anyway.
They can’t change the incentives without re-inventing how companies work. They’re just structured in a way that gives bad incentives like that. And nobody wants to take a risk on their dime, or break the thing that makes them money, and by now it’s all basically set in stone. Until the whole system breaks and new things get organized in a new system probably.
“It’s a question of motivation. If I bust my ass and Initec ships a few more units I don’t see another dime. So where’s the motivation?”
It’s insane that companies haven’t gotten this hint in the 27 years since Office Space was released.
Not wanting to starve is also a great motivator. Now that you’re struggling either way the motivation goes away.
“But that makes people work just hard enough that they don’t get fired”
Not starving is the motivation.
Its a motivation to maintain employment, but not to put in your best effort. The cat’s out of the bag now that, generally speaking, your boss doesn’t care enough about you to differentiate how he treats you vs. any of your peers, so its only a chump who would continually give more than a token amount of effort or loyalty to that relationship. Job-hopping is more well rewarded anyway.
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They can’t change the incentives without re-inventing how companies work. They’re just structured in a way that gives bad incentives like that. And nobody wants to take a risk on their dime, or break the thing that makes them money, and by now it’s all basically set in stone. Until the whole system breaks and new things get organized in a new system probably.
There are lots of companies that offer stock as well as monetary compensation, and things like profit sharing.