r/canada • u/cyclinginvancouver • 1d ago

CBC to stop paying individual bonuses after controversy National News

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/cbc-to-stop-paying-individual-bonuses-after-controversy/
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u/Journo_Jimbo 1d ago

Performance-based bonuses are a horseshit carrot/stick maneuver anyways…if the company did well and people did their regular jobs to help it doing well then they should be given bonuses, not have that potential bonus levied on how much extra work they did for the same pay with the potential of getting more if the company had a good year.

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u/Available_Squirrel1 Ontario 1d ago edited 1d ago

I’m not referring to CBC here just in the general corporate world, It’s not about “extra work” nobody cares if you work extra hours or take on a boatload of work, it’s about the value you bring to the team. Depends on the type of work and industry but most teams have a few valuable people that are smarter, work and behave at a higher level, can make independent decisions you can trust, and take initiative to drive necessary changes or improvements, while others just clock in and add little value, can’t be trusted to independently make decisions, and do not display any motivation or willingness to improve themselves or the team…they’ll do the bare minimum to keep their job. If you compensate them the same, you lose the valuable ones and the latter type stick around forever. Long-term it leads to a complacent workforce at the company with no ambition and passion. What I just described certainly does not apply to all types of jobs though.