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> PwC employees who choose to work virtually would have to come into the office a maximum of three days a month for in-person appointments such as critical team
by noisy_boy 5y ago
> PwC employees who choose to work virtually would have to come into the office a maximum of three days a month for in-person appointments such as critical team meetings, client visits and learning sessions, Seals-Coffield said.
> Location does factor, however, into PwC employees' pay, Seals-Coffield said. Employees who opt to work virtually full-time from a lower-cost location would see their pay decrease, she added.
- chmsky00 5y agoDifferent pay for the same work. “Meritocracy” in action. Since humans had to intuit quantities (food, etc), time (seasons), before formal language in order to survive, I’m pretty convinced logic and reason are our stronger innate abilities. That human romantic languages are a cognitive burden forced on the masses by conquerors of old. I don’t see it as bad to bin ideas originally conjured by lesser educated dead people.
- koolba 5y agoIf the cost of living in different locales can vary, is it that unreasonable to pay the same job function differently? The same janitorial, wait staff, and gas station attendant work in different locales pays based upon the local prevailing wage. Why not the same for a guy sitting in front of a computer?
- chmsky00 5y agoWhy should a worker accept a smaller cut for a feature the whole team contributed to? Did they write less code or contribute less bug fixes? Is the pay based upon output or businesses ability to manufacture consent in workers? Americans are battered spouses who would be wise to force austerity on CEOs rather than the other way around. Indeed, look at the wins teacher strikes and workers sitting at home right now, have on wages and competition. They need workers (when humans believed in religion as our social temple they were called “flocks”). We’re filling in the area of a perimeter originally defined by Bible thumpers and dead men of a classist perspective. Workers build the world. Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed uses a forced importation metaphor, of high minded aristocratic/imperialist expectations on locals. It’s one of my favorites to point folks at.
- RC_ITR 5y ago> Why should a worker accept a smaller cut for a feature the whole team contributed to? It’s simple. They don’t have to, but then when someone in Bali will do the same work for less, why wouldn’t the company mix shift that way over time?
- chmsky00 5y agoAnd the people left behind won’t need to eat or have shelter? How will that bank enforce ownership from across the country if they take away the economy? We’re basically setting aside biology for biblical trade rules foisted on ignorant farmers by aristocrats. Wow humanity is this ignorant of itself. I am mesmerized.
- jachee 5y ago> Why not the same for a guy sitting in front of a computer? Because, you’re not competing for the talent pool of Podunk, KY, you’re competing for the entire globally-connected internet-capable talent pool. And if you’re not willing to pay equal talent what they’re worth regardless of their location, someone else is.
- auntienomen 5y agoLocation-based comp is how you tell employees that what they can achieve for your business doesn't matter.
- supertrope 5y agoPay for performance assumes that you can measure performance with high accuracy and that employment status and pay should vary directly with immediate company/industry/market results. Employers mostly bear market and industry risk (and reap the rewards) insulating employees from business decisions, although this is a leaky abstraction (commissions, layoffs, stock comp).
- twobitshifter 5y agoI know if companies think they can do it, they will, but in consulting you’re often billing clients marked up hourly rates, so this makes even less sense. The hourly pay for a consultant is less a business constraint than it is for typical employees.