Seattle passes smaller ‘head tax’ on big companies after impassioned debate
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Re: Seattle passes smaller ‘head tax’ on big companies after impassioned debate
#2A $21/month tax on each employee. Feels like Amazon could swallow this and might provide some incentive to hire outside the city core.
Re: Seattle passes smaller ‘head tax’ on big companies after impassioned debate
#3One question comes to mind... I wonder if this will result in more companies allowing/encouraging remote work. Obviously, it won't work in every case. I just wonder if things like this will push companies more in that general direction.
Re: Seattle passes smaller ‘head tax’ on big companies after impassioned debate
#4This seems a little silly - it's an irritation, but it's not big enough to amount to anything really. If anything, it hurts lower-end positions more than any other, since it's a flat head tax. If you're counting the beans closely, it starts to make sense to hire 9 people with the salary you might have allotted to 10, and so forth.
All this would really seem to do is piss off Amazon and Microsoft and the other big players, which is kind of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Re: Seattle passes smaller ‘head tax’ on big companies after impassioned debate
#5One question comes to mind... I wonder if this will result in more companies allowing/encouraging remote work. Obviously, it won't work in every case. I just wonder if things like this will push companies more in that general direction.
For a company with multiple locations, they'll just shift jobs to the other locations. Working remotely has become very unfashionable in tech after many studies showed that remote employees are very inefficient.
Re: Seattle passes smaller ‘head tax’ on big companies after impassioned debate
#6Sad to watch SF and SEA be the cause of their own slow-motion downfall.
Re: Seattle passes smaller ‘head tax’ on big companies after impassioned debate
#7This seems a little silly - it's an irritation, but it's not big enough to amount to anything really. If anything, it hurts lower-end positions more than any other, since it's a flat head tax. If you're counting the beans closely, it starts to make sense to hire 9 people with the salary you might have allotted to 10, and so forth. All this would really seem to do is piss off Amazon and Microsoft and the other big pla…
$275/year comes out to a little more than a dollar per business day. With minimum wage being $15/hr in Seattle, this amounts to less than a 1% salary tax even in the maximal case. Making it vary with salary probably wouldn't have much if any impact.
Re: Seattle passes smaller ‘head tax’ on big companies after impassioned debate
#8One question comes to mind... I wonder if this will result in more companies allowing/encouraging remote work. Obviously, it won't work in every case. I just wonder if things like this will push companies more in that general direction.
For a company with multiple locations, they'll just shift jobs to the other locations. Working remotely has become very unfashionable in tech after many studies showed that remote employees are very inefficient.
Citations, please :)
Re: Seattle passes smaller ‘head tax’ on big companies after impassioned debate
#9One question comes to mind... I wonder if this will result in more companies allowing/encouraging remote work. Obviously, it won't work in every case. I just wonder if things like this will push companies more in that general direction.
For a company with multiple locations, they'll just shift jobs to the other locations. Working remotely has become very unfashionable in tech after many studies showed that remote employees are very inefficient.
I haven't heard of these studies. Could you point to one of the best ones?
Re: Seattle passes smaller ‘head tax’ on big companies after impassioned debate
#10How’re is this tax supposed to fix or ease homelessness?
Several years ago, some friends were looking to purchase a starter home in Seattle, maybe for $250k or so. But they had such a killer deal on rent, they opted to wait a few more years, to save up more money.
Well, in the next few years that dream quickly slipped through their fingers. Now you have to pay upwards of $500k just to get some as-is teardown that you’re not even allowed to look inside before you buy.