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Re:Pay Transparency Is Coming by zepto on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @01:55PM (#28542223)
Ok, so in low wage situations where workers do repetitive work independently, I agree that this could work, however even in your scenario it’s hard to see how the employer would justify taking more profit for the excess performance.

In any case, this piecework example doesn’t seem to be relevant to this forum.

Can you describe an example that would apply to programmers or other knowledge workers? What about people who work in teams?

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Re:Pay Transparency Is Coming by onlyrealcuzzo on Thursday September 16, 2021 @07:49AM (#28550498)
The agency model is really not that much different from baking pies.

If one of your developers is consistently able to finish projects substantially faster than other developers - you as a company are supposed to accurately estimate project difficulty and thus pricing (of course this is very hard to do accurately).

Your input costs are just wages, and your revenues are how much you charge for projects.

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