Incentive Systems
Stop overpaying for a lack of results
Money isn't everything, but no one comes to work for ideas. In 2023, the average employee turnover in companies operating remotely in Wroclaw was 19.3%. People leave because they don't know exactly what they are getting bonuses for. At Wroclaw Synergy Group, since September 2016, we have been showing companies how to fix this with hard data. We don't promise miracles, but numbers don't lie – a well-set bonus system can increase project delivery by 28.4% within the first three quarters.
Most companies make the same mistake: they give bonuses "for overall performance." That's a direct path to the frustration of your best people. We divide motivation into specific indicators. We look at real working time, the quality of submitted tasks, and how a given employee affects the rest of the remote team. We've battle-tested our methods on 114 companies from Lower Silesia. We know what works in Excel and what only looks good on slides in a presentation.
Concrete rules, zero guesswork
We build systems that every employee will understand in 4 minutes. If your people have to ask accounting where their payout came from, it means the system is rubbish. We focus on three pillars: clear financial thresholds, length-of-service bonuses (which actually keep people for longer than 12 months), and initiative bonuses. To put it bluntly, we are not the cheapest, but our solutions pay for themselves on average after 5.2 months of implementation.
- Audit of current pay and comparison with the Wroclaw market (data from Q4 2024).
- Creation of a KPI table that fits your industry, not a 90s textbook.
- Implementation of automatic sheets that calculate bonuses for you.
- Training for managers so they know how to talk about money without stress.
It happens that after an audit we have to tell the client to their face: you are paying too much to lazy people and too little to stars. That hurts, but it's the only way to a healthy culture. (Heads-up: if you are afraid of difficult conversations with the team, this system is not for you). Implementation of the whole scheme usually takes us from 19 to 24 business days. We don't drag out processes indefinitely because we know that time is actual cash.
In 2024, we helped an e-commerce company in Krzyki reduce the number of key developers leaving from 4 people a year to zero. It was enough to change the way annual bonuses were calculated to one that promotes actual code delivery, not just presence on Slack. Check how much you lose on recruiting new people just because the old incentive system stopped working three years ago.