Pay-for-performance sounds clean on paper. Workers who hit their numbers earn a bonus, workers who don't have a reason to improve, and your throughput climbs. A lot of DCs have tried some version of this — piece-rate bonuses, tier-based incentives, shift-level payouts — and the results are all over the map. When it works, it usually works because the baseline data is solid. One regional grocery distributor I know of moved to a picks-per-hour bonus structure and saw a 14% impr