>Screenshots obtained by Reuters show that Google employees who previously commuted an hour to Google’s Manhattan offices from nearby Stamford, Conn., for examp

>Screenshots obtained by Reuters show that Google employees who previously commuted an hour to Google’s Manhattan offices from nearby Stamford, Conn., for example, would see their salaries slashed by 15 percent if they choose to continue working from home. By contrast, “Googlers” who live within NYC’s five boroughs and choose to work from home permanently would not see their pay slashed at all. This seems silly to me. That CT employee likely commuted to the NY office pre-Covid (a huge percentage of people who work in NYC have always lived in NJ or CT for COL issues). If they choose to work from home, how are they any different from an employee living in NYC who chooses to work from home? This is not at all the same thing as someone moving from SV or NYC to rural Wyoming to arbitrage COL differences as a remote worker. The CT worker is capable of actually being in the office within an hour if something came up requiring them to be, the guy who moves to WY is not.