• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    it can get you rewarded, up to a point

    my company reached that point. 50 people and now working all that extra doesn’t get me anything else. it did when we were sub 30 people

    so I backed off. if I won’t be paid more for it, I’m not gonna stress myself out like that

    • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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      I think it can work only in small companies. I used to work in a place that had 15 people total, and our compensation was tied directly to company revenue. Not even individual performance, company performance. And each one of us had a direct impact on it.
      It was one of the healthiest job environments ever. Burnout was a risk, but even that was manageable with conscious planning.

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        I was so much happier working my ass off with only two dozen people at the company total than I am now with double that.

        When you’re a small company, everybody matters and everybody needs to be good at what they do, and it’s easy to communicate and keep everybody up to date. We’ve reached that size where not everybody is great, and their performance (or lack thereof) affects your own work. and then it cascades from there.