alt Hacker NewsI don't pay my employees based on inputs like how hard they work, I pay based on outputs.
Any other system of incentives would be insane.
Things are different if you're e.g. a lawyer and have billable hours.
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matwood • today at 10:02 AM
> I don't pay my employees based on inputs like how hard they work, I pay based on outputs.
It's crazy how many times I have to explain this to people, and it's usually when they ask me for a raise.
I get this, but also genuinely interested to know how to measure outputs. For me it's almost impossible to get it objectively right.
Maybe this doesn't apply to your case, but how would you measure outputs of say product development, or any data related project. Lot's of things don't have a good measure of output before the thing is done. Maybe your product / analysis improves profitability by 10x or maybe it was a flop and lost money.
Tangential, but I'm also seeing the quality of measures going down, with AI it seems that the number of [emails|code|analysis] produced is again a good measure.