To be fair, unless you were hired as remote only then the salary you had negotiated before factored these work related costs into your total real compensation.

To be fair, unless you were hired as remote only then the salary you had negotiated before factored these work related costs into your total real compensation. Back in the not so distant day when most were office dwellers, when considering competing offers the cost and time of the commute were always a factor, sometimes large. Changes in the nature of work (office vs remote) as a result of the pandemic will take a little while to sort themselves out in terms of employee compensation, but that should give many people a lot of opportunities at new and different jobs too.