Proximity Pay

Often the ebb and flow of work is such that there is more of a call and response over the entire 24 hours rather than a certain eight hour block where one is going full steam. Proximity pay gives you a certain amount of money for minimizing the gaps between fulfilling your boss's obligations.

This particularly comes in handy for technical employees. For example you might be dealing with hiring out installation of an SSL certificate where there are many points where one has to give 3 minutes of their productivity but at various times of the day when the installer asks you for more information.

People lament the fact that we're on call all the time but we might as well find a compensation scheme that rewards it. Hourly wages don't (as replying to e-mails are often only five minutes or less) and a fixed salary just assumes you'll always be on call.

It would take people above my pay grade to work out the implementation of this. You would be rewarded for not having too big of a gap of contact with your work. It could work that you got extra pay per e-mail reply but I see bosses just writing one e-mail with like 15 things to do. Any scheme employers will learn to exploit to their advantage so (like an anti virus with updating malware definitions) it would have to be one that changes dynamically over time.