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Well a Swiss court just ruled that companies need to compensate (including part of the rent) employees if they are home officed. [1] Companies taking advantage
by sschueller 6y ago
Well a Swiss court just ruled that companies need to compensate (including part of the rent) employees if they are home officed. [1]
Companies taking advantage of this and thinking they can save money should think again.
[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nzz.ch/amp/schweiz/arbeitgeber-muessen-einen-teil-der-wohnungsmiete-uebernehmen-wenn-sie-ihre-mitarbeiter-ins-home-office-schicken-ld.1557921 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nzz.ch/amp/schweiz/arbeitge...
- lykr0n 6y agoThat is fair. If I'm using my personal car for work, I'm reimbursed. Same thing should be done for business use at home. My increase in electricity and internet usage should be covered.
- harryh 6y agoIn practice this can't really be enforced. Say you were making $200k but then a law was passed that companies have to reimburse you for 20k of "home office expenses" per year. Guess what, now your salary is 180k + the reimbursement! Oh, you're saying you could pass a law against that too? OK, then what happens to new hires. They're gonna get 180k. You can't really stop that. At the end of the day, salaries will be set by the market. Companies are price takers just like employees.
- lonelappde 6y agoTake care not to conflate the "market" which applies when it benefits me over everyone else, with "fairness" which applies whenever it benefits me over everyot else.
- lonelappde 6y agoTake care not to conflate the "market" which applies when it benefits me over everyone else, with "fairness" which applies whenever it benefits me over everyone else.
- tester89 6y agoDeÄMPed: https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/arbeitgeber-muessen-einen-teil-der-wohnungsmiete-uebernehmen-wenn-sie-ihre-mitarbeiter-ins-home-office-schicken-ld.1557921 https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/arbeitgeber-muessen-einen-teil-de... In French: https://www.tdg.ch/teletravail-les-employeurs-doivent-dedommager-leurs-salaries-592279639227 https://www.tdg.ch/teletravail-les-employeurs-doivent-dedomm...
- wereHamster 6y agoNot "just ruled", the decision is from April 2019!
- temporalparts 6y agoDisclaimer: FB employee. The company claimed that they don't see this necessarily as a cost-saving measure because they plan on providing for home office equipment for permanent remote workers, kind of like how employees going to the office have monitors and keyboards provided for them.
- wmf 6y agoIsn't office rent far more expensive than equipment?
- close04 6y agoHome office equipment is only a fraction of the company's potential savings from office rent or other operational costs. Some of those costs get passed on to the employee, like electricity or heating costs.
- jimkleiber 6y agoSeems like the Uberization of white-collar workers, shifting costs to employees. And if not shifting those costs, then seems like a windfall for accountants to deal with all the tax implications. Or, an opportunity for a new wave of politicians to figure out how to implement tax and labor laws in such an environment.
- wmf 6y agoWFH might be simpler for tax purposes since you don't have imputed income from free lunches and such.
- jimkleiber 6y agoOh, interesting. Didn't think about that.
- ericd 6y agoThat’s pretty funny. I have an amazing home office setup, and even all that high-end kit cost a very small fraction of an FB engineer yearly salary. Are they planning on burning the delta by throwing in high-end telepresence hardware, or something?