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Counterpoint, they actually do since undoubtedly you're pricing that in when considering an offer. Unless you mean per mile/minute, in which case, great way to

Counterpoint, they actually do since undoubtedly you're pricing that in when considering an offer. Unless you mean per mile/minute, in which case, great way to ensure only those on the offices doorstep get hired.

mypastself 3y ago
Alternatively, it would incentivize employees to move greater distances away from the office in order to make more money for listening to podcasts on their way to work.
- jleyank 3y ago
  That's a hard way to make a dime...
- bick_nyers 3y ago
  Then that employee would be first to go in layoffs, problem solved
willcipriano 3y ago
> ensure only those on the offices doorstep get hired. In a lot of places the people on the offices doorstep are either independently wealthy or a high level executive of some kind. If they'd rather pay 5 million a year to have someone to fill the snack machine instead of paying the IRS milage reimbursement rate more power to them.
brnaftr361 3y ago
By far and large that is wrong. There is a proportion of people who have that negotiating power, and even then only some of them will be considering the aspects of their commute in those negotiations, and they will weigh the importance of that individually, and update only after some period of time during employment, if ever. The largest proportion of people are agreeing to "what the market will bear." Much in the same way as I have no debt and a considerable savings account, but ultimately I'm competing alongside people who have considerable debt and are fraught with scarcity and thus the going rate is pressed down due to desperate individuals willing to make considerable compromises on both the side of wages and those of working conditions. Alternatively it may be those who are willing to eschew wages for work experience, or perhaps immigrants who are really only allowed to work in some such sector who are fending for their families and willing to go to relative extremes. And etc... And this sort of stuff is what informs wages, and sets the negotiating window, if it exists, for most people and most jobs.

mypastself 3y ago

Alternatively, it would incentivize employees to move greater distances away from the office in order to make more money for listening to podcasts on their way to work.

jleyank 3y ago
That's a hard way to make a dime...
bick_nyers 3y ago
Then that employee would be first to go in layoffs, problem solved

willcipriano 3y ago

> ensure only those on the offices doorstep get hired. In a lot of places the people on the offices doorstep are either independently wealthy or a high level executive of some kind. If they'd rather pay 5 million a year to have someone to fill the snack machine instead of paying the IRS milage reimbursement rate more power to them.

brnaftr361 3y ago

By far and large that is wrong. There is a proportion of people who have that negotiating power, and even then only some of them will be considering the aspects of their commute in those negotiations, and they will weigh the importance of that individually, and update only after some period of time during employment, if ever. The largest proportion of people are agreeing to "what the market will bear." Much in the same way as I have no debt and a considerable savings account, but ultimately I'm competing alongside people who have considerable debt and are fraught with scarcity and thus the going rate is pressed down due to desperate individuals willing to make considerable compromises on both the side of wages and those of working conditions. Alternatively it may be those who are willing to eschew wages for work experience, or perhaps immigrants who are really only allowed to work in some such sector who are fending for their families and willing to go to relative extremes. And etc... And this sort of stuff is what informs wages, and sets the negotiating window, if it exists, for most people and most jobs.