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It’s not being weird with money. Commuting costs have no bearing on the point that I am now paying for things that companies pay for if I’m going in to an offic

by bmitc 5y ago

It’s not being weird with money. Commuting costs have no bearing on the point that I am now paying for things that companies pay for if I’m going in to an office. The overhead for an employee is typically 100-250% of their salary, and this is because it includes costs like monitors, desks, equipment, and energy usage. With employees working from home, that overhead cost has reduced and eliminated in some cases but is not returned to the employee. Some places do subsidize work-related costs at home. Not commuting may reduce the cost for the employee but it isn’t relevant to the specific argument because those costs were never seen by the company.

999900000999 5y ago
>Those costs were seen by the employees. Most of that overhead is stuff like healthcare, payroll tax, etc. It's going nowhere. https://smallbusiness.chron.com/overhead-include-payroll-60741.html https://smallbusiness.chron.com/overhead-include-payroll-607... You serious don't have a chair and a desk at home already? You can buy a small desk for 100$ and a chair for another 100$. A monitor can be had for another 200$. In addition to this you can now live a drastically cheaper life. Moving to a city where rent is 1/3rd as much, you don't need a car, etc. Let's say you get a job for a company that's located in Los Angeles. In la a one-bedroom is about $2,500, and you need a car which on the low end is going to cost you between a $500 to $700. If they make you come into the office your core monthly living expenses, even before nice things like food and electricity are about $3200. However, if they allow you to work remote you can live in say Philadelphia, find a nice apartment for around $1,400 and live car free. A metro pass is like 100$ That's 1700$ a month back in your pocket. How can you ask for more, of course you might still prefer to live in LA for personal reasons, but then you're choosing to live like that. I know I'm going to enjoy saving an extra $1,700 a month, not to mention getting up and hopping on the train even if you're in some magical Utopian city where public transit is free, is much harder than just logging in.

by bmitc 5y ago

999900000999 5y ago

>Those costs were seen by the employees. Most of that overhead is stuff like healthcare, payroll tax, etc. It's going nowhere. https://smallbusiness.chron.com/overhead-include-payroll-60741.html https://smallbusiness.chron.com/overhead-include-payroll-607... You serious don't have a chair and a desk at home already? You can buy a small desk for 100$ and a chair for another 100$. A monitor can be had for another 200$. In addition to this you can now live a drastically cheaper life. Moving to a city where rent is 1/3rd as much, you don't need a car, etc. Let's say you get a job for a company that's located in Los Angeles. In la a one-bedroom is about $2,500, and you need a car which on the low end is going to cost you between a $500 to $700. If they make you come into the office your core monthly living expenses, even before nice things like food and electricity are about $3200. However, if they allow you to work remote you can live in say Philadelphia, find a nice apartment for around $1,400 and live car free. A metro pass is like 100$ That's 1700$ a month back in your pocket. How can you ask for more, of course you might still prefer to live in LA for personal reasons, but then you're choosing to live like that. I know I'm going to enjoy saving an extra $1,700 a month, not to mention getting up and hopping on the train even if you're in some magical Utopian city where public transit is free, is much harder than just logging in.