Annual bonus is either performance based or as a retainer to make up for differences in the wages since the person was hired.
Stock options are because you could be paid more or you are taking risks for future rewards.
A mandatory tip is because your employer doesn't want to pay you full wage and instead of increasing the price and pay you more, they pass it over to the customers. So they get the same profits without having to bother.
A mandatory fixed/clearly defined tip is effectively a service tax. Nothing wrong about that if it’s clearly advertised (e.g. you don’t have to pay it if you take out). Quite a few countries in Europe have stuff like that.
Variable, pseudo-optional tips seem like a much bigger problem.
Employees are paid for the work they are expected to perform during the hours they are at the office. The company doesn’t expect them to do more than that, however if they do, they get a nice bonus for it.
Baristas are paid to make iced tea. The customer doesn’t expect them to do more than that, but they can be nice, learn your name, prepare your tea ahead of time, change the tea recipe to something you enjoy more. Don’t you think they should get a nice bonus too?
Bonus/Options are to be paid by the employer. Essentially, what you are asking for is that you go to Netflix subscription page and there is a dropdown saying "how much bonus to pay our employees this year?"
Yeah no. Your annual bonus and stock options is between you and your employer. Your end customers don't pay for it directly, they are paid for within the cost of whatever product your employer is selling.
When tipping is no longer customary to receive good service and seeps into other aspects of lives it leads to all sorts of problems and situations.
This[1] is an extreme example of that situation in a different country but are we really ready to accept similar consequences and say they should've just paid the poor nurse ?
>Your annual bonus and stock options is between you and your employer. Your end customers don't pay for it directly
In the service industry, you wouldn't need to say end customer, because the person you're delivering to is already the end customer. Either way is still a results based cash reward paid by the entity receiving the direct output of your work.
Since tipping is done by customers. It is like employers tell employees you can let customers know good service is for good tippers. Maybe car repair mechanic can pour sweet tea in instead of engine oil since customer is known to be bad tipper.
I am sure that will go very well with that business.
A lot of the times your contract will actually include bonus and stock options, so those are part of the price. And if not, then the employer absolutely does not have to pay bonus or offer stock options. The employee, ofcourse, has the right to move jobs if they desire.
By that logic, most reading these comments should expect to hear from their employer: