Scenarios about 'compensation systems'
Compensation systems encompass the frameworks and methodologies organizations use to determine how individuals are paid for their labor, including wages, salaries, benefits, and incentives. Throughout history, these systems have evolved from simple barter arrangements to complex structures reflecting societal values, economic conditions, and power dynamics between workers and employers. In alternate history scenarios, examining different compensation paradigms can reveal how economic philosophies, technological development, and social hierarchies might have developed under different historical circumstances.
What If Merit Pay Was Widely Implemented?
Exploring the alternate timeline where performance-based compensation became the dominant payment model across multiple sectors, fundamentally reshaping workplace dynamics, economic mobility, and social structures.