{"product_id":"output-over-hours-paul-baker-9798252956527","title":"Output Over Hours: Why Paying for Time Creates Waste and Paying for Output Creates Flow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf you run a plant, warehouse, or fulfillment operation, your labor model is broken. You've been paying for hours. It's time to pay for output.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross America, most plants, warehouses, and fulfillment operations manage labor the same way: hire by the hour, pay for time on the clock, and hope productivity follows. It is cost-plus in disguise. And the hidden costs - lost throughput, rework, overtime, turnover, and constant retraining - are often far higher than the rate on the invoice. The model punishes your best people, subsidizes your weakest performers, and bakes broken incentives into every level of the operation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOutput Over Hours\u003c\/b\u003e is the playbook for replacing that model.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Baker, CFO of Productiv, draws on more than two decades of operating experience and company-built data showing that paying for output outperforms paying for hours across factories, warehouses, and fulfillment environments. In this book, he lays out the full operating system: how to baseline Cost Per Unit, design lean production lines using single-piece flow, staff to the operation instead of to man-hours, set conveyor speeds for maximum throughput, build gainsharing programs that align financial incentives with floor performance, and create the servant-leadership culture that holds it all together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is for COOs, VPs of Operations, and GMs who are tired of the temp-labor grind - no-shows, retraining, revolving doors, and constant instability - and who have tried everything from attendance bonuses to flexible schedules to rotating staffing agencies, only to end up with the same result: not enough reliable output on the floor. This is a practical playbook, not a thought experiment, filled with financial templates, tools, and systems you can apply in your operation right away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hourly labor model is broken. Better systems beat cheaper labor. Every time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Baker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798252956527\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d","brand":"Paul Baker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48742228263167,"sku":"9798252956527","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/output-over-hours-paul-baker-9798252956527","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}