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If you're in a relatively low comp area and decide to work remotely from a high comp city, does your location-based pay go up? Or is all "remote" work considere
by mLuby 5y ago
If you're in a relatively low comp area and decide to work remotely from a high comp city, does your location-based pay go up? Or is all "remote" work considered the same location pay-wise?
And furthermore, who's checking all of this—do you have to prove where you work, or just have a mailing address and a place to pay taxes?
I know one place that sent an inspector to verify the home office had the minimum required office equipment: a door and a shredder.
- bradfa 5y agoI've read that some companies require inspections of home offices in order to comply with insurance rules, especially around workers compensation. As if you get hurt "on the job" but the job happens in the employee's own home it could easily become quite a mess on the insurance side of things trying to figure out who's to blame. I'm not sure exactly how sales tax rules work, but in the US I believe that if a business has a presence in a given state they are required to collect sales tax in that state. This could matter for smaller companies but probably Google already has a presence in every US state. Regardless, purposefully lying to your employer about your location seems like something most employers would get really upset about simply on principle once they found out.