> One year we got $300 (or less...) bonuses. It was just how the math of this complicated system worked out.
I worked at a company where HR had too many people coming up with complicated reward schemes, but not enough money to make them worthwhile. Same thing: Reward levels were $100 here, $200 there, and required a relatively large amount of work to get.
The weirdest thing was watching a subset of people pursue these small rewards so aggressively that their primary work started to fall behind. Some people would be grinding away at the next step to win a $100 reward while neglecting real work that others were depending on.
Good lesson in how weird incentives can be for some people.
I worked at a company where HR had too many people coming up with complicated reward schemes, but not enough money to make them worthwhile. Same thing: Reward levels were $100 here, $200 there, and required a relatively large amount of work to get.
The weirdest thing was watching a subset of people pursue these small rewards so aggressively that their primary work started to fall behind. Some people would be grinding away at the next step to win a $100 reward while neglecting real work that others were depending on.
Good lesson in how weird incentives can be for some people.