[apercu]

>While mean wages metrics look great, the cost savings are an illusion because we spend twice as much time communicating and tacking back and forth to the final answer across timezones. compensation consultants dont care about that, they care about mean wage metrics

100% this. What you save in dollars is spent in time. Not just more documentation requirements, not just more meetings, not just changing your schedule to work early or late in crunch times, but way more time resolving obvious, easy issues.

[onlyrealcuzzo]

> What you save in dollars is spent in time.

If you're on salary, that costs nothing to the business, so they don't care until it starts to impact them...

[reaperducer]

If you're on salary, that costs nothing to the business, so they don't care until it starts to impact them...

It depends on if you work for a good company or not.

Several times a year I have to make a decision about the direction and handling of projects based on how many hours it will take, divided into my salary.

Salaried workers aren't free labor. Wasting their time means they're not doing something more useful, and likely more profitable, for the company.

[TheNewsIsHere]

It absolutely does cost the business. Your salary is a generally fixed rate, and the time you spend also tends to be fixed.

It’s a zero sum game with diminishing returns.

The more time you spend on nonsense, the less time you spend doing useful things and the more time the company is paying for nonsense.

[apercu]

You're not wrong, but a well run company would have cost targets for a project, and the longer you are paying people (salary or not) to work on something, the more it costs and your staff aren't working on the next thing. So now it's $ plus opportunity cost.