how to make a counterargument to this PFP still has a place in the workplace. The video does not say they should not be used. It drives the points that it depends on the nature of the tasks to be done, whether they are mechanical or cognitive. It also discussed that it is the highest tier that has the worst performance. That implies that it still has some usefulness as motivation on the lower two tiers. Within the company you may have different types of workers. Although they may not appeal as much to cognitive task workers, a manufacturing group or other processing team, for example, might respond well to a tiered incentive plan. They have a specific, measurable goal. The cognitive, creative or conceptual task is harder to apply to the PFP structure, so although these workers may be still doing their job, they appear to fail because it is hard to assign measurement to creativity. They need to be given more freedom or flexibility to encourage that job category to develop