[clevernapkins]

There was a relevant article recently about monetizing tasks to see if it made people more efficient. The idea was to give someone $X every time they completed a task. The end result was that it made people more productive at simple and easily repetitive tasks, and extremely counterproductive for any task that required hard thinking or creativity.

As a developer I hope that software companies don't establish this type of tracking but it would probably work at other types of jobs, at least in the short run. I could see it having a negative effect on company morale as time goes by.

[dreamfactory]

If you can categorise the tasks (which is a very big if), you can maintain an index of the time taken for tasks of a given type to complete and value accordingly in effort required. Allow employees to pick available tasks and they will gravitate to where they can deliver most value.

[walshemj]

And will deliberately slow down when the time and motion guy comes round this is old old school stuff thats been going on on the factory floor for hundreds of years - if not thousands of years.