Comment by johnnyanmac

>What are you buying with that $20k exactly?

This incentive is entirely backwards. It should be "what are we losing with not spending that 20k?". You lose out on someone used to the company workflow, you waste any training you invested in them, you create a hole that strains your other 3-4 100k engineers, and you add a time strain to your managers to spend time interviewing a new member.

if you really believe you can buy all that back for 120k as if you ran short on milkk, you're missing the forest for the tree.

>Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to just fire staff for a week then re-hire them at a new salary.

if society conditions a workforce to understand the issue, sure. But psychologically. you'd create an even lower morale workplace. Even for a week, people don't want to be dropped like a hot potato, even if you pick it up later as it cools. People want some form of stability, especially in an assumed full time role.