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Employers might care about the fact it's taking longer and longer to get employees to work, which is directly cutting into productive time and adding costs to t
by awalton 8y ago
Employers might care about the fact it's taking longer and longer to get employees to work, which is directly cutting into productive time and adding costs to their employee commute programs (extra shuttle miles, extra trips, etc). You know, on top of the terrible hit to quality of life and general morale that longer commutes generate.
High rent prices have priced out even relatively highly paid professionals in cities like Palo Alto and Mountain View where many of these companies are headquartered. That's a tremendous red flag about just how broken the state of housing is in the Bay Area - if the highly paid tech employees can't live there, neither can anyone earning less than them (read: pretty much everyone else). How is that building a sustainable local community and economy?
- nojvek 8y agoPaying $4000 a month on a one bedroom apt, means throwing 48k away a year. Tax is about 35% so your take home income from 150k senior salary is ~50k. That’s not a lot of money for “all other expenses”.
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- s73v3r_ 8y agoI feel that, if they did care, it's a lot easier to spin up an office in a different part of the country.