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Do you get a variable bonus in your job?

Started by Zanza, February 06, 2014, 03:20:10 AM

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Do you get a variable bonus in your job?

Yes, based on personal performance (e.g. targets achieved, hours billed etc.)
5 (12.8%)
Yes, based on company performance (e.g. based on earnings etc.)
5 (12.8%)
Yes, based on both personal and company performance
8 (20.5%)
No, just a fixed renumeration
15 (38.5%)
I don't even have a job
6 (15.4%)

Total Members Voted: 39

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Jacob

#30
February 06, 2014, 04:34:02 PM
Do you find the presence (and structure) of your bonus plan having actual impact on your day to day work or overall performance?

jimmy olsen

#31
February 06, 2014, 04:34:53 PM
I get a bonus for re-signing my contract
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alfred russel

#32
February 06, 2014, 04:56:44 PM
Quote from: Jacob on February 06, 2014, 04:34:02 PM
Do you find the presence (and structure) of your bonus plan having actual impact on your day to day work or overall performance?

No. However, it does I think contribute to people cheerleading for the company to do well. Probably the biggest effect is on employee retention--we lose our bonuses if we leave before year end, and they tend to be a significant portion of our salary.
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DGuller

#33
February 06, 2014, 05:05:32 PM
Quote from: Jacob on February 06, 2014, 04:34:02 PM
Do you find the presence (and structure) of your bonus plan having actual impact on your day to day work or overall performance?
:hmm: My answer would depend on whether my employer is reading this thread.

alfred russel

#34
February 06, 2014, 05:10:37 PM
Quote from: DGuller on February 06, 2014, 05:05:32 PM
Quote from: Jacob on February 06, 2014, 04:34:02 PM
Do you find the presence (and structure) of your bonus plan having actual impact on your day to day work or overall performance?
:hmm: My answer would depend on whether my employer is reading this thread.

When I get a small bonus, I feel sad and demoralized. I try to work really hard, but it is hard to see my computer through the tears. When I get a big bonus, I am excited and energized. I come in to work weekends and stay late because I love to work in such a rewarding workplace.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There's a fine line between salvation and drinking poison in the jungle.

I'm embarrassed. I've been making the mistake of associating with you. It won't happen again. :)
-garbon, February 23, 2014

Caliga

#35
February 06, 2014, 05:12:42 PM
 :D
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CountDeMoney

#36
February 06, 2014, 05:41:07 PM
I really don't want to talk about it.

dps

#37
February 06, 2014, 07:02:53 PM
I voted that I get a bonus based on the performance of the company, but technically it's based on neither personal performance nor company performance, but rather on the performance of the particular unit of the company I work for. 

Darth Wagtaros

#38
February 06, 2014, 08:46:21 PM
It is invariably nothing.
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Ancient Demon

#39
February 06, 2014, 09:08:56 PM
No.
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celedhring

#40
February 07, 2014, 05:14:08 AM
Quote from: Jacob on February 06, 2014, 04:34:02 PM
Do you find the presence (and structure) of your bonus plan having actual impact on your day to day work or overall performance?

Since a huge chunk of my pay comes from it, certainly.

It also makes me extremely stressed, as it doesn't depend fully on my performance, so I can work my ass off and still get nada.

Josquius

#41
February 07, 2014, 05:18:48 AM
Boa niss oo?
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Grey Fox

#42
February 07, 2014, 06:57:18 AM
Quote from: Jacob on February 06, 2014, 04:34:02 PM
Do you find the presence (and structure) of your bonus plan having actual impact on your day to day work or overall performance?

:lol:

No.

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I am not a salesman. Nothing I do will impact current earnings.
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Caliga

#43
February 07, 2014, 07:57:56 AM
I get somewhere between 20% and 35% (the latter is what I got last year, about 25% of it in cash and the rest in deferred comp).

It only affects my performance in the sense that it keeps me from quitting sometimes. :lol:
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Zanza

#44
February 07, 2014, 08:29:29 AM
Quote from: Jacob on February 06, 2014, 04:34:02 PM
Do you find the presence (and structure) of your bonus plan having actual impact on your day to day work or overall performance?
Not at all.

The personal performance bonus doesn't seem to depend too much on your actual target achievement as long as you roughly achieve what was asked from you.

The company performance bonus is something I have zero influence on anyway and can just wait and see how much I get.
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