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Disclaimer: 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 equip
by temporalparts 6y ago
Disclaimer: 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?
- temporalparts 6y agoI don't know if it's high end, but every FTE I know got a Portal.
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- ericd 6y agoThe top end afaik is the Cisco telepresence gear used in eg the White House. There’s a spectrum in between, but $280 is definitely near the lower end. Maybe portal is really good, though? But honestly, it could be the best teleconferencing gear, I’d never put a camera from FB in my home.
- amgreg 6y agoPardon my ignorance, but what is a Portal?
- detaro 6y agoA video-call device they make: https://portal.facebook.com/ https://portal.facebook.com/
- flocial 6y agoI was about to ask the same question. I didn't even know this product existed!
- absoluteharam 6y agoa whitelabled version of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen
- piva00 6y agoTo be honest: all of the office equipment is a mere fraction of a month's of an engineer salary, providing the basic tools for your workers that is less than a month's salary is nowhere a "cost-saving measure", even less when you are saving on real estate...