Ntt has 320k employees. I wonder what the other 290 will think?
Full remote.
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#102Unnecessary commuting should always be included in working hours and expensed.
Are you going to expense your lunch breakfast dinner and rent as well? You need all those as well in order to work. If you work from home are you going to expense your electricity? Where is the line?
Yeah. Businesses owe citizens. People owe nothing to businesses.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
You’re being downvoted because you smugly dismissed peoples opinions without offering your own.
They implied that companies with high-paid employees are ok with working remotely because it increases their talent pool to include places like South America. Why pay $200k for a US software engineer when you can get four in Brazil for the same price?
Why does it matter? Are managers just willingly being shitheads?
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
It used to be that meals were tax deductible (which is why Google offered meals) but that got restricted. If a company offers a meal stipend how does that work? Is it just bonus compensation but ear marked for food only?
Depends on the company and how they're paying it out. I've seen food services where a daily credit is issued to your service account (funded by the org), I've seen it as bonus comp, etc. Whichever mechanism is used is usually some sort of crude optimization attempt for what's best for the org and the employee with whatever services and regulatory framework they're working with (wrt to taxes).
Are you in Europe?
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you going to expense your lunch breakfast dinner and rent as well? You need all those as well in order to work. If you work from home are you going to expense your electricity? Where is the line?
Japanese companies often include both a commuting allowance and a housing allowance as distinct components of your pay; neither is counted as income for the purposes of taxation. Meals at company cafeterias are typically not free (though some places are), but typically very reasonable -- e.g. 300 JPY for curry-rice etc.
Nit: That's true for taxation, but counted for social insurance/pension fee. Latter is big for lower income workers.
Re: Japan's NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees
#106Another reason why big corp encourages telework (while there are some ventures don't encourage) is because their office in Tokyo is very expensive. Anyway it's good thing.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know about NTT, but salaries for software devs are really low in general. Think €30-40k per year. How FAANG are not leveraging such a poorly paid workforce in countries with a great climate, developed, safe, etc, I will never know.
That's low. In Romania FAANGs aren't paying better salaries than market average, so the only incentive to work for a FAANG is to have it on your CV, stay 2 years and find better employment. FAANGs get it really cheap here as they pay 10x lower wages than in the US.
Romania doesn't have Netflix, Apple, Facebook and barely has Google through Fitbit.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Depends on the company and how they're paying it out. I've seen food services where a daily credit is issued to your service account (funded by the org), I've seen it as bonus comp, etc. Whichever mechanism is used is usually some sort of crude optimization attempt for what's best for the org and the employee with whatever services and regulatory framework they're working with (wrt to taxes).
Are you in Europe?
I am a US citizen residing in the US with the intent to expatriate to Europe on a remote worker visa, which my employer will support.