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If a Google employee ostensibly works in “the NYC office” but hasn’t set foot in the office in over >6 months (will be like 15 months by the time Google’s askin
by rlanday 6y ago
If a Google employee ostensibly works in “the NYC office” but hasn’t set foot in the office in over >6 months (will be like 15 months by the time Google’s asking people to be back in July), lives in another state (e.g. New Jersey, maybe the employee took advantage of the remote work conditions to Florida or Texas)…how long should New York be able to tax this person despite the fact that they don’t live or work in New York? Google’s also not headquartered in New York. Google could move everyone in the computer to e.g. the Seattle or the Austin office (but are currently refusing to do so) if we’re all working remotely anyway.
- free652 6y agoAs long as he works for NY office he will pay NY taxes. He would need to ask Google to switch his office's location.
- ghaff 6y agoI assume Google would have to switch his official status which it may not want to do for various reasons. If I lived in NH (which I don't) and wanted to switch my location from an MA office to remote, the company would have to do paperwork to do so.
- anonAndOn 6y agoAlso, they might change their current health benefits as those are often priced & administered according specific geographic regions. Maybe not a big deal between MA/NH but certainly if you switched to remote only from a little farther afield.
- rlanday 6y agoThe health benefits already have to be set up to account for where the employees actually live rather than where we work on paper. E.g. if an employee lives in New Jersey and commutes into New York, either the health insurance has to cover providers in New Jersey or the employee has to see doctors in New York. It doesn’t solve anything to change an entry in a database and pretend the employee is actually somewhere else.