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Employers are competing for talent with ingenious incentives while increasingly turning to agency staff to plug the gaps.
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"Viewing employee retention as Microsoft's Achilles' heel, Yang engineered an ingenious defense creating huge incentives for a massive employee walkout in the aftermath of a change of control," reads the legal complaint.
But tightening the rules is politically fraught, as Britain's prime minister, Tony Blair, has found: he has faced a furious parliamentary revolt over a plan to make disability benefits harder to claim (see article).Even when governments try to tighten the rules, people may find ingenious ways around them, if the incentive is great enough.
When there is adversity, it seems, we humans have all the greater incentive to work out ingenious ways to overcome obstacles, protect ourselves from harm, and chart new territory.
And when the government set a target for raising literacy and numeracy, children became more literate and numerate but at the cost of squeezing out other beneficial activities such as sport.At worst, targets create "perverse incentives"—when workers are cleverer than targeters, and find ingenious, and not necessarily desirable, ways to meet their targets.
Clever consultants, whose immediate incentive is to please managers rather than shareholders, have devised ingenious compensation schemes allowing bosses to reap handsome rewards even if they foul things up.
But the danger of over-prescriptive legislation is that it can smother the incentives for employers to sponsor 401(k) plans.Despite these difficulties, the reforms offer an ingenious way of guiding choices in pension saving without compulsion.
In a statement, Mr Mitchell said: "When the last Labour government introduced tax incentives to invest in the British film industry, along with many other investors I did so through Ingenious Films.
Very ingenious".
But he was ingenious.
And it is ingenious.
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