Companies should compensate remote workers better. We bear the costs of workspace, equipment, infra, communications, etc. As of now we're just offshore lite. What do you think remote Blinders?
Companies pay you your market value. Market value of remote workers is less than onsite.
True. Because where somebody is located is worth more than their capabilities.
People are paid by replacement value, not by "capabilities." The market is saying that the next person in line for your remote job will accept less than the next in line for an onsite equivalent.
Some remote-first companies like Elastic give you good money to have a crazy cool home office. I know someone who has a 1k desk, $600 chair, a nice MacBook Pro, giant monitor and tons of accessories. All paid by the company. I would think most remote-first companies would do something similar.
Can you suggest some companies with similar perks?
Also interested.
Good to know
You use all the same stuff at home without work anyway. Not like you'd disconnect your WiFi or throw away your desk if you weren't working remote. What's the issue?
Wouldn't have a dedicated office at home without remote work. It's not worth it.
Are the kids on PIP yet?
Employees should be paying their employers for saving them on gas, mileage on their cars, laundry/dry cleaning bills, insurance costs and all the $$$ you spend to eat out on a work day.
Lol try harder plz. Whatever happened to maximum effort?
Work from home is a convenience and business try to cut down all the costs. Don’t make yourself a cost center and be the first one on the chopping block when it comes to cost reduction and layoffs. This is exactly what many organizations have done and are doing. Enjoy your privilege but don’t abuse it to the extent of milking $$$ out of it.
I’m confused- why wouldn’t you expense all costs related to your home office? Also, isn’t WFH a choice vs a mandate?
A lot of employers won't expense it. If you mean tax write offs the rules are sketchy when it's employee work and not self employement.
I mean both - I have a hard time believing an employer won’t expense business costs if they are mandating you work from home. If it’s by choice, then the deduction calculation in the tax code is pretty clear and takes about 30 minutes to figure out. You can even deduct based on square footage of your house devoted to business work.
I work fully remote, make 110k in the Midwest, am I underpaid? I would have probably made less working locally.
Idk, try factoring in your home office/workspace expenses vs onsite benefits. Operations cost a lot.
I would have a computer room either way, the only difference is I have a separate work laptop on my desk. I get the benefit of having no commute and the companies around here don't have a bunch of perks like the companies on the west coast that pay more and have a ton of perks.
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They already provided you all that, at the office
Trying too hard bud. Next!