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A few years ago the New York Times did a massive multi-day feature on increasing workplace productivity, and our bosses got excited and we all spent a couple of days reading it and talking about it, which culminated in a meeting to spitball ideas about how we might increase productivity in our workplace. 

“That was an interesting meeting,” one of my colleagues said to me afterward.

“Yeah, I just wonder,” I said.

“About what?”

“Will we be paid more?”

“What?”

“Well, if we’re being more productive, we’re probably expending more energy, since all those ideas were for how individual people could be more productive. In theory we, specifically, are earning more for the organization, which is doing nothing different. So. Will we be compensated for that?”

She gave me potentially the most thoughtful look I’ve ever received.

(We didn’t end up implementing jack shit, which is just as well.)