Ways of Working Nudge

Today, when using the word incentives in the context of work, the vast majority of people assume that it is referring to financial incentives. “When you say incentives here, people will immediately assume that you mean financial incentives. In fact, we need to use another word for non-financial incentives, it’s so engrained.” is a common response.

Financial incentives are just one form of incentives. There are explicit incentives and implicit incentives and the latter can be more powerful than the former. But, we are still primarily focussed on the former, partying like it's 1885.

LinkedIn post here, Bluesky here, Threads here

Regards, Jon