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Re:How Much Should You Pay Your Engineers to Ensure They Sti... by sys_64738 on Thursday June 18, 2020 @12:34PM (#23564788)
Usually when you're hiring you're trying to solve a critical business need. A pay raise to a legacy employee doesn't get you more productivity.
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Re:How Much Should You Pay Your Engineers to Ensure They Sti... by ratww on Thursday June 18, 2020 @01:02PM (#23565115)
Usually when an employee leaves it means you have to find somebody else anyway, so that point is not valid.
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Re:How Much Should You Pay Your Engineers to Ensure They Sti... by jlokier on Thursday June 18, 2020 @04:50PM (#23567868)
That's a bit like paying a blackmailer: "You want us to give you a 40% raise just so you won't reduce current productivity?"

In terms of productivity it would be rational to pay.

But there's a decidedly different quality between paying for an improvement, and paying someone to not make things worse.

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