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Selon Julien Lippi, la performance ne dépend pas d’un seul individu ou d’une seule équipe mais de toute l’entreprise. Mais faut-il ne récompenser que la performance ? En 2013, suite à une baisse du chiffre d’affaires, donc d’une diminution de « l’enveloppe budgétaire des augmentations de salaire », plutôt que de « saupoudrer » sur tout le monde, le comité d’entreprise a exprimé le souhait d’attribuer des promotions pour les personnes les plus engagées, exprime Odile de Nantes, Responsable Ressources Humaines de Lippi. Très bien, mais comment évaluer l’engagement, critère très différent de la performance individuelle ?  Et pourquoi ne pas relier l’engagement à l’appropriation des valeurs (encore faut-il qu’elles soient claires, compréhensibles et mesurables) ? C’est ainsi que cette entreprise a décidé de baser une partie des augmentations de salaires sur le niveau d’appropriation de leurs 4 valeurs : le respect des autres, la disponibilité pour les collaborateurs (pour le management), la disponibilité pour les autres services et unités et le lean (signaler les dysfonctionnement : apporter, quand c’est possible, la solution soi-même).

Tout le monde est concerné par cette « évaluation » qui se fait en mode 360° de manière collective. Au-delà de l’engagement, cette pratique a pour avantage de souligner l’importance des valeurs et de récompenser les salariés qui les font vivre au quotidien.

Dans chacun de ses cinq bus de luxe, la start-up vous permet de valider votre transport avec un QR code, pas la peine de trimbaler un billet ou une carte. Une fois à l’intérieur du bus ultra moderne boisé et hipstérisé, vous êtes carrément assis dans un café à l’atmosphère collaborative, avec le wifi gratuit et un bus manager qui tient son smartphone comme un menu, prêt à vous amener le jus de votre choix au premier clic de commande. L’autre valeur ajoutée de Leap, c’est un GPS qui permet de suivre le trajet en temps réel et une application donnant accès aux profils sociaux des autres passagers.

Uber has long claimed it’s a technology company, not a transportation company. Uber’s drivers are promoted as entrepreneurs and classified as independent contractors. The company claims to provide only a platform/app that enables drivers to be connected with passengers; as an intermediary, the company relies on the politics of platforms to elude responsibility as a traditional employer, as well as regulatory regimes designed to govern traditional taxi businesses.

Drivers must submit to a system that molds their interactions, controls their behavior, sets and changes rates unilaterally, and is generally structured to minimize the power of driver (“partner”) voices. Drivers make inquiries to outsourced community support representatives that work on Uber’s behalf, but their responses are based on templates or FAQs.

Uber uses surge pricing to lure drivers to work at a particular place at a particular time, without guaranteeing the validity of the surge incentive if they do follow it. Surge is produced through an algorithmic assessment of supply and demand and is subject to constant dynamism. The rate that drivers are paid is based on the passenger’s location, not their own. Even when they travel to an active surge zone, they risk receiving passengers at lower or higher surge than is initially advertised, or getting fares from outside the surge zone. Drivers will be locked out of the system for varying periods of time, like 10 minutes, 30 minutes, etc. for declining too many rides. They also get warnings for “manipulating” surge.

There are also badges that are not tied to roles that result in a raise, such as the Teal 101 badge, which employees can earn after reading management guru Frederic Laloux's book, "Reinventing Organizations," and writing one to three paragraphs demonstrating their understanding, the Las Vegas Sun reports.

Badges also exist for non-monetary roles like proficiency in talking about Teal companies (what Zappos aspires to be) and teaching yoga. Jewett says these reinforce Hsieh's Core Value No. 3 to "create fun and a little weirdness," and self-expression has always been at the heart of Zappos.

As a first example, consider how workplace monitoring generates data that companies can use to automate the very tasks workers are being paid to perform. When Uber drivers carry passengers from one location to another, or simply cruise around town waiting for fares, Uber gathers extensive data on routes, driving speed, and driver behavior. That data may prove useful in developing the many algorithms required for autonomous vehicles—for example by illuminating how a reasonable driver would respond to particular traffic or road conditions.

with GPS data from millions of trips across town, Uber may be able to predict the best path from point A to point B fairly well, accounting not just for map distance, but also for current traffic, weather, the time of day, etc. In other words, its algorithms can replicate drivers’ subtle, local knowledge. If that knowledge was once relatively rare, then Uber’s algorithms may enable it to push down wages and erode working conditions.

By managing drivers’ expectations, the company may be able to maintain a high supply of drivers on the road waiting for fares. The net effect may be to lower wages, since the company only pays drivers when they are ferrying passengers.