Our employers aren't really paying us to work; they're paying us to work on the projects that they want us to work on within a particular time.

So, they pay to direct our work.

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(... unless the payment we receive has a more or less big part that depends on actual success of a given project ... 😁)

Well, that can also be the case in volunteer work. With bounties, for instance.