GE pays employees to start smoking!
Feb. 12th, 2009 09:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snousleWell, that wasn't quite their idea. But researchers did pay a bunch of GE employees $750 to stop smoking. Which means, in effect, that they were paid $750 to start smoking, since nonsmokers never had the opportunity to quit and earn the cash.
Apparently GE is going to start offering this to employees in 2010. I swear, the second I thought such an offer might be in the works, I'd start smoking in order to quit and get the money. Mostly as a demonstration of the power of perverse incentives.
After that, I'd start a bank and let it fail so I could get my package stimulated.
Apparently GE is going to start offering this to employees in 2010. I swear, the second I thought such an offer might be in the works, I'd start smoking in order to quit and get the money. Mostly as a demonstration of the power of perverse incentives.
After that, I'd start a bank and let it fail so I could get my package stimulated.
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Date: 2009-02-12 06:21 pm (UTC)So that means I gotta pay to stimulate your package? Aw shucks...
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Date: 2009-02-12 06:22 pm (UTC)mmmmmm-hmmmmm.
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Date: 2009-02-12 07:32 pm (UTC)I'd like to take a cattle prod to the "packages" of the numbskulls who created this whole mess.