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Re:The four motivators (2016) by PacifyFish on Thursday February 01, 2018 @04:37PM (#16286156)
This list feels incomplete. I wish I could find a link to the referenced HBR article to evaluate whether their study is worth anything.

For example, I'm surprised to find no mention of quality of life or more specifically work-life balance. Surely that's a dimension that motivates at least as many people as "loyalty to a social group," and it's rare to have a meaningful discussion of compensation without considering the trade-off with work-life balance.

What's more, there's no mention of the enjoyability of the work itself. I think many software engineers can attest that it's hard to beat a tight feedback loop combined with a problem that's just on the edge of your circle of competency. Or, to put it bluntly, would you be more motivated in your job as a {insert money-is-no-issue-dream-job here} or working the "returns" counter at Macy's?

Re:The four motivators (2016) by marmaduke on Thursday February 01, 2018 @06:44PM (#16287037)
The list seems incomplete since it might have been written from a management perspective: what buttons to press to motivate someone to work?

Still I think work-life balance and iterative problem solving are part vision, part perks, in the sense that I have a larger vision of how I want to work, and this job has the perk of letting me do that.