No, I't's still a bad move.
In my article I pointed out that when I lost a few people they'd get paid *after* they got called in to do
work.
In other words its an incentive to actually turn up and do the job properly.
If you look at any sort of business where they get the money up front, the level of service you get is rather less good than when we pay after we get it. Same with ITPros,