Re:The billable hour is a trap into which more and more of u...
by matheusmoreira on Friday May 27, 2022 @03:23AM
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> using your software is going to cause the billable volume to go down
Yeah, that's a huge concern. If they get paid for literal hours, then they're directly incentivized to maximize hours.
Software is highly effective when you get paid for productivity: hourly rate scales with efficiency. I want to reduce the hours I spend working so I can go back to enjoying my life as soon as possible.
I wrote my own software to track my process and compute statistics so I could identify bottlenecks and opportunities. Essentially a profile-guided optimization run on my job which doubled my hourly rate and got me home faster.
Yeah, that's a huge concern. If they get paid for literal hours, then they're directly incentivized to maximize hours.
Software is highly effective when you get paid for productivity: hourly rate scales with efficiency. I want to reduce the hours I spend working so I can go back to enjoying my life as soon as possible.
I wrote my own software to track my process and compute statistics so I could identify bottlenecks and opportunities. Essentially a profile-guided optimization run on my job which doubled my hourly rate and got me home faster.