But usually salary negotiations happen once an offer is given, so candidate has already been picked. The company really need to explicitly act in bad faith to b

But usually salary negotiations happen once an offer is given, so candidate has already been picked. The company really need to explicitly act in bad faith to be choosing the cheaper candidate. Here I'm probably more mentioning a bias more than bad faith (although bad faith could also happen). I get the point of Gitlab about having zombie employees, but at the same time other remote companies offer SF-based salary. So _as a remote worker_ you could decide to get a SF-based salary instead of locally adjusted one. I get both sides of the argument and really don't know if a side is more right.