Employee incentive plans are designed to motivate and reward employees of their exceptional performance. Organizations often use incentive plans to help increase employee performance, and wellness, as well as boosting morale and loyalty and helps to reduce employee turnover. Motivated employees are very important to an organization that is trying to achieve goals. Employees will work harder if there is an incentive to go above and beyond. When an employee's hard work is recognized and rewarded from any level of management, this motivates the employee to increase their performance and productivity. When employees feel like they are working personal reason, not upper management, the result is a positive, happier, productivity workforce. Early in the 1980's, Microsoft, which at the time had less than a dozen employees for years, started hiring hundreds of new employees for their growing software products. Microsoft needed to fill programmers positions to help handle and produce Microsoft’s many new products. The applicants were told the hours would be long and the pay would not be much, but a a Microsoft employee they would be assured a generous package of stocks options. The new employees took Microsoft package deal, and in the next ten years employees saw their stock offerings growing into a multimillion dollar fortune. In 2000, there was an estimation that over 10,000 Microsoft employees were “Microsoft Millionaires” because of the stock policy. Microsoft's incentive plan was offering stock ownership in Microsoft. The employees knew their productivity would be a main connection with Microsoft's success. They hard work helped Microsoft grow faster, which made the stocks more valuable. Not all organizations can use an incentive plan like Microsoft, but organization can implement a wage incentive plan. All employees are paid their normal pay, but exceptional creative, driven, problem solving employees receive a bonus on pay day.