[potato3732842]

Because that's better for morale and has a lower administrative overhead than the administrative overhead of having a cutoff or whatever.

[jcgrillo]

It would be even less administrative overhead to just give everyone the $18.2k/yr in their regular paycheck.

[bathtub365]

The idea is to keep them in the office by giving them free food they’re only supposed to eat while they’re there, without paying overtime.

[salawat]

IT people are overtime exempt. Overtime doesn't factor into the calculus.

[bathtub365]

I used to make overtime pay as a software developer. It’s just been widely accepted by a lot of software developers that they don’t deserve overtime.