Scenarios about 'performance-based pay'
Performance-based pay refers to compensation systems where workers' earnings are directly tied to their productivity, output, or achievement of specific metrics. This approach emerged during industrialization but gained significant popularity in the late 20th century as businesses sought to increase efficiency and align employee incentives with organizational goals. In alternate history scenarios, different implementations of performance-based pay often reflect divergent economic systems and can significantly impact labor relations, class structures, and technological development paths.
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.