Google Ties Employee Bonuses To +1 Success 167
jfruhlinger writes "Last week Google introduced the +1 button, its attempt to tie its search offerings more closely with users' social networks. Now, a leaked memo reveals that every Google employee will have a stake in the outcome, with bonuses tied to the success or failure of the initiative."
Welcome to business. (Score:4, Informative)
This is how my company, and I imagine many others, do bonuses. They're not givens.
Every year HQ releases the metric/equation for our bonus. Sometimes it's company wide. Sometimes it's division wide.
For example: (Round numbers, not real)
No one gets a bonus unless we hit a $0.50 dividend.
After that. For every $0.01 above $.50, we get that much as a 'multiplier'.
So as a salary grade 10. I get 10% of my annual salary as my bonus. Multiplied by the multiplier. I earn $50,000 year. We hit $1.20 dividend. That means I get 50k*.10*1.20 = $6000 bonus.
It's not like the +1 button is their entire metric, but I'm sure it plays a role. Unless +1 hits 10% of market usage AND some other things happen, then the bonuses are given.