> On the other side, I haven't seen companies giving extra bonuses when the economy is booming.

I'm sure horse and sparrow economics[0] will start working any day now...

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: "If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows."