Employee Productivity Incentives

bro, if you want your employee work more, just pay your employees more. what's so hard to understand about it?

Think of it this way. If you can get away with so little work while being recognized as a solid contributor, you must be extremely competent: where a newbie sounds the entire day on busywork to find a solution, you just see the solution and spend the rest 7 hours reading HN. Also, when was the last time your manager approached you with a conversation "hey, out company is doing much better, so we wanted to double your pay and give you this expense card to pay for flights, hotels and restaura

I’d say it’s an incentive problem. Not many employees get extra pay if they’re individually more productive.

exactly! if you're taking home the same salary whether you're creating massive value for the company, why bother?

How about the incentive of doing your job properly.

it wasn't about coworkers.... when people are working they often get paid the same no matter what their productivity is, so the motivations are different

same pay for less responsibility? a sense of doing important work?

Because people will be paid well to do it, they might as well put more effort into it. You get what you pay for in that way!

They’re employed to do a specific job, if they’re not rewarded for bringing the company more money, why should they care?

Their work output is worth more than the compensation or Bezos wouldn't be authorizing it.