{"id":173,"date":"2009-05-07T21:34:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T01:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/?p=173"},"modified":"2009-05-07T21:34:52","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T01:34:52","slug":"an-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/07\/an-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"An idea…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a thought about employee salaries and “real” (unperceived) costs versus business costs. I’d like to see a study that takes several businesses and over a period of time (at least one calendar year or 4 business quarters) compares salaries and business costs. I’d like to test something though. I’d like one of the businesses (or perhaps a control group of them) implement the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. No employee can work more than 50 hours,<\/li>\n
  2. All hourly (non-salaried) employees can only work 36 hours,<\/li>\n
  3. and all work over the 40 hour mark earn at 2x the hourly rate.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’m interested in how business would optimize the above working\/earning patterns. Would costs for businesses increase or decrease? Would smarter business decisions be made? Would more be accomplished in a given time with capped hours? Would hourly workers be better utilized? Would salary overhead be reduced? And then how does our current business model compare to this capped approach?<\/p>\n

    Not that I’m an economist or business manager. And not that capping is needed or even beneficial – I don’t know. I’m just curious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I had a thought about employee salaries and “real” (unperceived) costs versus business costs. I’d like to see a study that takes several businesses and over a period of time (at least one calendar year or 4 business quarters) compares salaries and business costs. I’d like to test something though. I’d like one of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}