[jefftk]

> If your goal is money and you are a manager then in any organization (not just Google) it's likely that income is going to be O(number of reports).

Income linear in the number of reports? Increasing with reports, sure, but way less than linear. Logarithmic is usually a good guess with this sort of thing.

[cmsonger]

Indeed! I suppose I actually meant f(number of reports) because I didn't actually think the scaling through.

The broader points remain: This is true everywhere and not unique to Google. People get a choice whether or not they opt in.