National Grid managers to earn bonuses for hitting carbon and financial targets, an initiative which may spread throughout industry and Whitehall Electricity pylons in Suffolk. Photograph: Graham Turner/Guardian Bonuses are wrong, right? If our journey over the economic precipice has taught us anything, it is that bonus schemes promote reckless risk taking, create perverse incentives and breed resentment. Your financial reward is your salary, the bonus is keeping your job. Or was it the scale and structure of the turbo-charged bonuses given to incompetent bankers that created the...
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