June 30, 2025
In March of 2018, I wrote a post about employees who are very good at their jobs and get the job done well, but who finish their tasks much more quickly than anticipated when they were hired.
I asked if they should be given more work to do or allowed to go home with pay, since they were doing the job they’d been hired for.
Writing from a business-owner’s perspective, I suggested that the person be cross-trained, leaving them less subject to boredom, and adding a deeper bench to the company’s workforce.
Someone else feels that letting the person go home would improve their quality of life and enhance their creativity; and, since they were completing the tasks they were hired to do, why shouldn’t they be allowed to take the pay agreed upon and still have the free time?
As a worker, it sounds like a great deal to me. It’s like contract work, but with benefits.
Does anyone ever discuss that when they’re applying for, or offering someone, a job? Maybe that should be part of the interview process.
Start honing those negotiating skills, folks.
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