Sounds interesting. The question is, would it be better for companies than the current situation? Because it’s the company who decides the form of the interview, so if the answer is negative, this is not going to happen.
On a hypothetical nerdy planet where things like this happen, we could go further and let both sides specify numbers for various scenarios, for example what would be the salary for working in open space vs having your own office with doors, how much for work from home vs work in office, on-call vs no on-call, etc. Not sure how exactly to evaluate the results, but I think it might be good for the employers to have data such as “having open spaces is $X cheaper than having offices with doors, but our employees hate it so much that we need to pay them $Y higher salaries, so maybe it was not such a good idea” or “remote work makes people 10% less productive, but we could hire 30% more of them for the same budget”.
The question is, would it be better for companies than the current situation? Because it’s the company who decides the form of the interview, so if the answer is negative, this is not going to happen.
Yeah, I don’t think this is going to be adopted very soon. My best guess at how that could happen is if people try it in low-stakes contexts where the parties are ~symmetric in power, and this then spreads through e.g. people who do consulting for small startups, to salaries for high-value employees in small startups, to salaries for high-value employees in general etc.
Another way this could happen is if unions push for it, but I don’t see that happening anytime soon.
Sounds interesting. The question is, would it be better for companies than the current situation? Because it’s the company who decides the form of the interview, so if the answer is negative, this is not going to happen.
On a hypothetical nerdy planet where things like this happen, we could go further and let both sides specify numbers for various scenarios, for example what would be the salary for working in open space vs having your own office with doors, how much for work from home vs work in office, on-call vs no on-call, etc. Not sure how exactly to evaluate the results, but I think it might be good for the employers to have data such as “having open spaces is $X cheaper than having offices with doors, but our employees hate it so much that we need to pay them $Y higher salaries, so maybe it was not such a good idea” or “remote work makes people 10% less productive, but we could hire 30% more of them for the same budget”.
Yeah, I don’t think this is going to be adopted very soon. My best guess at how that could happen is if people try it in low-stakes contexts where the parties are ~symmetric in power, and this then spreads through e.g. people who do consulting for small startups, to salaries for high-value employees in small startups, to salaries for high-value employees in general etc.
Another way this could happen is if unions push for it, but I don’t see that happening anytime soon.
(I’m going to see whether me putting this up as a way of determining rates can work, but probably not.)