[twobitshifter]

It’s a neat idea but as outlined in the article, you have to control the culture. If you don’t, it would be possible for factions to develop or efforts to influence salary votes with kick backs. It’s fine when everyone has some appreciation for the other workers and not too large of an ego, but one selfish person could throw things off.

My dad used to work a machinist job where they were paid piece rate. He thought this was great and systematically improved good own production to the point where he was making twice what most others on the shift were. They resented him and others who succeeded under piece rate pay. Eventually the company took an employee vote on eliminating piece rate pay and going hourly. The low output workers would make more with hourly pay but my dad would make much less. The hourly pay faction won the vote and my dad and others ended up on new jobs.