Google employees who work from home could lose money
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Re: Google employees who work from home could lose money
#2Companies never lose an opportunity to cut costs.
They sense that many employees prefer to work from home, so that they may be willing to essentially pay for the privilege.
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#3beancounter MBAs
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#4And they no longer need a desk in an expensive office building, or free food. Triple win.
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#5Companies never lose an opportunity to cut costs. They sense that many employees prefer to work from home, so that they may be willing to essentially pay for the privilege.
But wouldn't companies also save money by using smaller offices (and maybe by cutting the micro managers who control employees in an office environment)? What you are saying is that companies are capitalizing on the preference rather than any real cost of working from home?
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#6There are lots of other companies hiring, and if you're getting a pay cut, you already have big G on your resume.
Don't think you have to keep working for a company that has previously conspired to price-fix wages and defraud its workforce out of billions of dollars of wages.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/04/apple-googl...
Eric Schmidt, conspirator in this fraud, had a long and successful career there even after it was discovered.
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#7This will continue until enough high profile people publicly leave their jobs, and specifically mention how their new company doesn't cheat them out of the market rate based on their lifestyle choices.
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#8Yeah I think we've been through this. Your salary isn't purely a function of how much value you bring to the company. It also depends on how much other people are willing to work for. That's how markets work.
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#9I mean isn't this just removing comp for commuting ? Assuming you got compensated based on commute time, 2 hours commuting a day does not sound worth the 10% to me - do some moonlighting if you're that bent on converting all your time to money.
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#10I think this is making a whole lot of out nothing, or at least not much. Google would determine your pay based on your work location, regardless of whether that's your home or the office. As a result people that lived far from the office in a typically less expensive area could see their pay drop.