Too true. I’m definitely less productive on Fridays, when my wife is off work.
They always get more than their due. They have to, or they won’t be able to profit. But the same could be said for when you were working at an hourly rate. Nobody is paid what they are “worth.”
Oftentimes a shift from hourly to salary comes about because they need you to do more than they can pay you to do at an hourly rate.
When I started with my current company, everyone worked on a salary. But we were partnered with ADP and when they found out, they required the owner to switch anyone who wasn’t in a management position to hourly rates because they were too exploitable when working for a salary.
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Well, that never happened to me, I’m glad to say. I had low-pay hourly paid jobs in my youth. I spent most of my career, once qualified, on a salary. I am in UK where the employment culture and practices differ somewhat (more so in the past than today, perhaps).
Here, salary implies (used to imply?) you are a ‘professional’ and do what the job demands and not count the hours (but within the context of the contracted/prescribed hours per working week and later EU working hours directive - though it was those on hourly rates who that directive protected most. Salaried people could agree to work extra hours. I always recorded my hours - we had a time recording system, as many staff were billable though I was not so time recording was irrelevant for me. It meant I’d have ad evidence for my nervous breakdown if I ever had one. Anyway, back to the point…)
Contrast the salaried status with an hourly wage, which implies you are a labour commodity to be matched to demand - despite many such jobs being highly skilled and specialised.
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Sounds rough. Hang in there and keep trying to find something better.
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I’ll be damned if I’m going to give up working from home. After the pandemic winds down, I can still see myself coming to the office at least a couple of days a week, so I can touch base with my boss and coworkers, do meetings and various stuff that needs to be done in person, but I want to spend at least some time at home.
Because I HATE open-plan offices. Too many distractions and interruptions, and it feels like my boss is looking over my shoulder the whole time. Gets on my nerves. I really need a private office with a door that closes. I can get that at home, but virtually all employers are unwilling to provide that at the workplace, despite all the studies saying that open-plan offices are a drain on productivity.
The real reason for open-plan offices? So the boss can shoulder-surf you walking down the aisle, and because it’s cheap. Working from home is cheaper though. Just sayin’…
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Modernism. Still sterile. Boo.
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I just wanted to highlight this. The one thing that I’ve realized as I’ve gotten older is how culture beats economics 4 times out of 5.
The number of times I’ve seen stupid economic decisions because of cultural background is way higher than I expected when I was a youth (for example, hourly workers = fungible, so we let we stop paying a needed employee when there’s no work for a month. Then idle the entire floor for 2 months trying to find a replacement).
When I graduated university many years ago, I expected heartless accounting from the MBAs that run companies. What I’ve been appalled at is how often companies suffer economically because management aren’t soulless and instead make stupid decisions because their culture tells them that to do otherwise feels wrong.
Turns out even upper management is made of people.
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Sure. let’s kill everyone else.
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