Trabalho, Educação e Saúde - TES (Work, Education and Health) is an open access scientific journal, edited by the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health, from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
The 'bonus strategy' is defined by employers as a way to seek to make the workers work more and better using grants for additional monetary benefits to
wages as an incentive, conditional on an increase in productivity. Two examples of the strategy are mentioned, one of them referring to the Department of
Education of the State of São Paulo and the other to the University of São Paulo (USP). It examines the following three assumptions of the strategy – the conception of painful labor, workers imbued with the spirit of capitalism, and monetary reward as the only form of incentive – in an attempt to show that none of them have universal validity and are therefore strictly false. Then we present the additional evidence for the invalidity of the assumptions, derived from the work of retired teachers and teachers who have the credentials to retire, but that are still working. In the last section, the most disastrous consequence of the use of the bonus strategy is exposed: the 'idiotization' of society.
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