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Before joining the faculty, Day’s professional career included practice and consulting in the practice areas of compensation and performance management.

Holding everything constant, ignoring state and local income taxes and other taxes such as paying into unemployment or worker’s compensation funds, and assuming $40,000 in compensation as in Veliotis and Balsam (2022), the benefit to a company of independent contractor status would be the after-tax savings of the employer portion of the Social Security and Medicare taxes, which is $2,417 (see Table 1).

“She said [it represented], ‘This is what I feel from Patagonia; I feel held’ – that this is how Patagonia shows up [for her through benefits, compensation and more].”

Mondal views the “quiet quitting” phenomenon as something that affects a vast swath of workers, not because they no longer care about compensation or their work, but because “other priorities may be overwhelming them, causing them to rethink their priorities.”

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It is also ideal for HR generalists or compensation specialists with limited benefits compliance knowledge who wish to expand their skill set.

The appeal of this type of contract-based employment relationship model for companies is more productivity while not having to pay for benefits (health insurance, paid time off, retirement programs), not having to pay minimum wage, or follow overtime laws (unemployment insurance, workers’ compensation, and payroll taxes) and not even having to own a fleet of vehicles to compete in the industry as taxi companies and some restaurants must do (Drake 2020; Jaffe 2021; Kolmar 2022).

“Additionally, there is a compensation and equity issue for employees who don’t need or use the benefit.”

Assisting with or automating tasks such as creating or updating job descriptions, generating new-hire offers, or managing the annual compensation adjustment process.; ;Improving decision-making.