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Well the company is still paying for the benefits they offered you, you just can't use them. I see both sides of the argument but we're in unprecedented territo
by colinmhayes 6y ago
Well the company is still paying for the benefits they offered you, you just can't use them. I see both sides of the argument but we're in unprecedented territory here and in the end what's "fair" has little no to impact on the outcome of negotiations.
- dogman144 6y agoThey're paying for the benefits still, but unless a certain % of SWEs go remote, there's diminishing costs per SWE to provide the benefits. You have to consider the scale the benefits "get provided at." At a certain point, it costs the same to feed premium salad to 500 engineers as it does 575 engineers (no idea if this is the math, but conceptually yeah). A cook can make 600 or 700 gallons of soup without much difference or new purchases required: huge vat of soup is 2/3 vs. 3/4 full. If the % of remote engineers hit a level such that cooks have to buy new soup bowls, idle hand cooks, or offices with cavernous empty halllways, then yeah, you're back under diminishing costs/eng and need to scale down.