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>cities matter. >You might say "but...but...the internet". Well, perfecting remote work is just the beginning. The unplanned/sponteneous interactions that lead
by SilasX 6y ago
>cities matter.
>You might say "but...but...the internet". Well, perfecting remote work is just the beginning. The unplanned/sponteneous interactions that lead to new relationships also matte
Yes, I can totally get why anyone would pay a premium for someone who is physically present, or can be on relatively little notice.
But that only be relevant as far as "local or remote?", where the former gets a premium against the latter, and it shouldn't care about looking up the specific CoL of which remote location you're working from (so long as business hours are maintained). The issue is that location-based pay does do this.
- dasil003 6y agoYeah a few years ago I was looking around at companies and had some interest in joining Gitlab. Then I saw their pay scale for Oakland and it was laughably low compared to SF even though that was all within my local job market. Ultimately remote first companies that don’t do this will win the talent war and steadily push remote salaries up. Depending how successful they are it may also push major market salaries down over time.
- Ericson2314 6y agoI agree. PP was asking about why SV pays so much more in the first place. That's a related question but with different variables fixed constant. Indeed, it's very stupid to so discriminate between different locals. And it's not even clear this is in the employer's interests besides the higher order effects of dominating labor: in simplistic first-order modeling pay scales like this only hinder the arbitrage between different remote locations that are equivalent in the big corp's eyes.