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Why, you pay for their skill set and their results not for how long they hang out at your office. An employee that can get 40 hours done in 32 is more valuable than an employee who needs 40 to get the same results.

exactly! currently salaried myself and some weeks it takes me 25 hours to get the work done, and other weeks it takes 50 or more. It just depends on the workload/season we are in. It's silly that I have to sit at my desk during the off season till the end of the day with nothing to do just bc of some arbitrary HR rule that was written for the whole company. Salaried folks are paid for results, not by the hour, yet we get treated like an hourly worker in terms of seat time.

IMO you incentivize people to work harder by letting them go home when they've finished a project (assuming there's not another project waiting in the queue).

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Posted by Bass Tiger

Member since Oct 2014

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Posted on 12/10/21 at 2:31 pm to ChipDiamond

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exactly! currently salaried myself and some weeks it takes me 25 hours to get the work done, and other weeks it takes 50 or more. It just depends on the workload/season we are in. It's silly that I have to sit at my desk during the off season till the end of the day with nothing to do just bc of some arbitrary HR rule that was written for the whole company. Salaried folks are paid for results, not by the hour, yet we get treated like an hourly worker in terms of seat time.

IMO you incentivize people to work harder by letting them go home when they've finished a project (assuming there's not another project waiting in the queue).

This isn't how a company looks at their workforce. Here's how some manufacturing companies work the incentive game. They establish an incentive quota for a machine operator to produce x amount of production/hr, once the operator achieves and then surpasses his quota and earns the incentive bonus the production engineer will inevitably turn up the machine's production capabilities with a quick PLC programming change and the game starts all over. It's the same with salaried employees, once you proven yourself to be a good project manager.....typically you get more difficult projects and more of them.