> I want there to be trust so we can both grow the company together.
Do you offer equity, then? Does an employee working harder, faster, also benefit them because they share in the company's success, or does it just increase your profits while they slave away building widgets for you?
> I want to make a list of tasks and have you work through them as fast as you can
If you treat your employees as cogs in an assembly line, well, they're just going to think of you as a checklist they gotta complete in order to get paid. Doesn't sound like they have much reason to be loyal.
I dunno, the power dynamics in these relationships can vary so much between companies and individual managers/owners. The good ones take care of their employees and inspire loyalty and share their success. The bad ones just treat them as commoditized labor, and in turn get treated as commodity jobs. It's a two-way street.
>> I want there to be trust so we can both grow the company together.
> Do you offer equity, then?
Employees complain a lot about pay, but those surely don’t deserve a dime. As an employer, I grew the company from 0 to 6 jobs. Now I employ people to delegate missions to, one of them is that each employee creates 6 jobs too. And the type of “post-Covid” employee is, in practice, useless to the economy.
Do you offer equity, then? Does an employee working harder, faster, also benefit them because they share in the company's success, or does it just increase your profits while they slave away building widgets for you?
> I want to make a list of tasks and have you work through them as fast as you can
If you treat your employees as cogs in an assembly line, well, they're just going to think of you as a checklist they gotta complete in order to get paid. Doesn't sound like they have much reason to be loyal.
I dunno, the power dynamics in these relationships can vary so much between companies and individual managers/owners. The good ones take care of their employees and inspire loyalty and share their success. The bad ones just treat them as commoditized labor, and in turn get treated as commodity jobs. It's a two-way street.