Re:Percent Jobs
by earthling8118 on Monday October 16, 2023 @03:19PM
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Why do we need to increase productivity to make this work? When productivity increases by other means compensation doesn't increase nor do hours decrease. That productivity gain is happily eaten up by the company. This looks like a case of companies wanting to have their cake and eat it too.
Re:Percent Jobs
by kuchenbecker on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:27PM
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I'm making a strawman actuarial argument; basically there is little incentive to the Company and they would need to see a productivity increase if pay is linear scaled to match hours due to the per employee overhead.
This is overly simple:
Let's make the incorrect assumption all hours are equal.
- 40 hours making $4000, at $100/hr, with $1000 overhead, for a total cost of $5000, or 125/hr.
- 32 hours making $3200, at 100/hr, with $1000 overhead is a total cost of $4200, 131/hr
So let's ballpark and say you need 10% increase in productivity to make the cost of an equally efficient worker working 80% time. I'm not sure I've worked at a company that can estimate individual performance with that margin.