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What? Since when?? Pay is compensation for work done. Not having to commute does not affect the company at all, they still get the same amount of work done an

What? Since when?? Pay is compensation for work done. Not having to commute does not affect the company at all, they still get the same amount of work done and it is still have the same value to then so i can assure you that the work i do did not became less valuable to the company just because i did not spend hours of my personal time moving to the office and back. Pay should either stay the same or, ideally, it should go up because while they are saving money by me not going to the office, i on the other hand have extra costs because i have to get good internet, will use my electricity for doing the work. Where i work not only pay did not get lowered when the team moved to fully remote, they actually pay us extra to cover costs of working from home. They also offer a one-time pay to cover the costs or assembling your home office so you can buy stuff you need like desk, chair, printer, etc when you change to remote or when you are hired as remote.

HPsquared 2y ago
I'm just giving my personal opinion, I'm sure shared by some people, that I'd actually accept less pay for a WFH job. Or, in other words, if they want me to work in an office they'd have to pay more.
- tmottabr 2y ago
  If i am looking for a job and had to choose between a remote work paying less over a in-office job paying more.. I would also get the remote job even if it paid less.. But in my opinion this mindset is the wrong one when you already have a job and is changing to remote. If you already have a job that the company already evaluated the value of and agree on a fair pay.. Then moving to work remote does not change the value of your work to the company while changing the costs the company have.. Where i live they cannot legally lower an employee pay, but if they could and had done when i changed to work remotely i would surely have accepted, but i would also start looking for work elsewhere. But i know they have not done it in countries they could have and like i said, they pay us extra to cover internet and utilities.

HPsquared 2y ago

I'm just giving my personal opinion, I'm sure shared by some people, that I'd actually accept less pay for a WFH job. Or, in other words, if they want me to work in an office they'd have to pay more.

tmottabr 2y ago
If i am looking for a job and had to choose between a remote work paying less over a in-office job paying more.. I would also get the remote job even if it paid less.. But in my opinion this mindset is the wrong one when you already have a job and is changing to remote. If you already have a job that the company already evaluated the value of and agree on a fair pay.. Then moving to work remote does not change the value of your work to the company while changing the costs the company have.. Where i live they cannot legally lower an employee pay, but if they could and had done when i changed to work remotely i would surely have accepted, but i would also start looking for work elsewhere. But i know they have not done it in countries they could have and like i said, they pay us extra to cover internet and utilities.