In Finland you usually get a static pay just for being on call, meaning you're X minutes away from a company-approved device you can use to fix things if they break.
If there's an actual alert you need to respond to, your pay goes to 2x hourly rate, or 3-4x if it's the weekend and there usually is a minimum amount of billing you do if you have to do any work, usually 30-60 minutes. So if you get an alert and you fix it by pressing the "fix it" button on the dashboard on a Sunday, you just got paid hundreds of euros.
On the other hand you most likely saved the company from losing multiple times that in revenue, so it's worth it to the company.
I have a bunch of friends who were single and/or child free in their 20s and have fully paid apartments/houses because they could be on call at any time because they didn't have any commitments.
I also know a good amount of incidents that were fixed in a pub corner table after a few drinks. I may or may not have contributed to that number. =)
If there's an actual alert you need to respond to, your pay goes to 2x hourly rate, or 3-4x if it's the weekend and there usually is a minimum amount of billing you do if you have to do any work, usually 30-60 minutes. So if you get an alert and you fix it by pressing the "fix it" button on the dashboard on a Sunday, you just got paid hundreds of euros.
On the other hand you most likely saved the company from losing multiple times that in revenue, so it's worth it to the company.
I have a bunch of friends who were single and/or child free in their 20s and have fully paid apartments/houses because they could be on call at any time because they didn't have any commitments.
I also know a good amount of incidents that were fixed in a pub corner table after a few drinks. I may or may not have contributed to that number. =)