Many workers would take a pay cut to work from home — some would forgo at least 20% of their salary

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• 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nah. This is just trying to normalize paying workers less

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• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Perhaps we should be able to work from home where the work itself permits and also get paid the same amount. Fuck off with the push polling.

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• b3an@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Really? I felt I should be paid more since I’m not getting electricity, coffees, internet, heat, subsidized by my job for the increased usage.

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  • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Depends where you are. Imagine losing 2 hours a day in traffic + buying lunches cause never room in fridge. I knew multiple coworkers that got hotels to stay in and took train back home for weekends because it was cheaper than living close to work or didn’t want to uproot family.
    Savings in those cases well outweighs 20%.

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    • b3an@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But the inconvenience of all that shit sounds horrible and unnecessary. Fuck commuting in traffic spewing CO2 to line some asshole’s pocket who doesn’t want me to have a normal standard of living.

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    True. Outside of brief hardware / furniture accommodations that were offered at the start of the pan, my previous company made out like bandits. They tried a six week “experiment” of having us come to the office twice a week in 2021. At the end, they looked at the numbers, made wfh the primary mode, and moved to a smaller office.

    For context, the CEO / owner had been floating the possibility of taking over the office space across from us, doubling our footprint, in early 2020.

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    • b3an@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They’ve saved a lot of money on floor space. A LOT of money.

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• teamevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Bullshit unless the company is making 20% less off my work suddenly…it’s a win win for business don’t let them pay less rent and you less salary.

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  • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I somehow believe they get a tax cut from city or something that has to be worth more than emptying the building for 3 days.

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    • bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My previous employer built a 2nd building in the same metro area. They got grants and stuff but they had stipulations that required a minimum number of employees to work in that office.

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• okamiueru@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  These articles just stink corporate interests. “You’d have to pay 20% more than a competitor, if the difference is requiring working from home.” rings a lot different than “please master, don’t make me go back, I’ll work for 20% less and be happy, it’s a win-win, right?”

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    These are total bullshit Corp articles. Another way to stifle pay. If your skillet is good for the job you should get paid that. The only benefit to working in the office is to get needlessly bagged at by walkby’s. What’s the point of walking to your home office, getting on a computer working, vs wasting unnecessary time in traffic creating pollution and walking to the office to get on a computer and work? It’s stupid.

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• floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Some can perhaps afford to give up 20% of their salary. Good for them. Many of us don’t have that wiggle room.

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  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    For me giving up the commute would basically pay my 20% that I forgot. My gas bill is like $400 a month and 90% of that is for my work commute.

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah that’s how I interpret it: 20% covers the cost of commuting. Factor in the time of commuting and getting ready, and 20% doesn’t sound that crazy.

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• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, work from the homeless shelter. /s

  People should be paid more, not less. There’s enough wealth hoarding to prove the money is there.

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• bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I took a 50% raise to work from home again.

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• njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fuck that

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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As part of our push to retain work from home after covid I pointed out that my cost savings per year between time (at overtime rates), food, and transportation was $10,000 dollars and all they needed to provide was an extra power block and mouse+keyboard. They had already given me an unintentional raise, and I wanted to keep some of it.

  Ended up hybrid which works out great since there are some people that need to communicate in person, but two days a week meets that need and the other three days I can be productive on other stuff and with people who can communicate remotely.

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s part of your total compensation. Or so goes the buzzword.

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• Dorkyd68@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Pfft, speak for yourself. What utter bs this article. Some real "journalism " going on here

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