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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what many companies are doing. Its not an uncommon practice. PreCovid we had many threads about how much of a pay cut was worth a remote position. I took one and it worked well for me for many years! No surprises here[/quote]+1 There was a hug thread about this in late 2020 (I think) when Facebook announced this approach. Even with adjusting for cost of living differences, it’s not like these big tech companies are paying small company crap wages. Why should Google pay SV wages for the employees that opted to move to Idaho?[/quote]

Because wages should be tied to the work and not the location. [/quote]

You can believe that all you want, but employers disagree. [/quote]

That's BS. Most employee who work remotely are highly sought after. The ones who go into office have to b/c they don't have options.[/quote]

That’s not always true. Plenty of grunt work that didn’t require much talent gets shoveled off to remote employees. I think some full-time remote workers think too much of themselves and that’s part of the problem. It exists in-office too, but remote workers aren’t around people who can help deflate their self-perceptions. [/quote]

Just b/c someone is in the office, doesn't mean they are productive. Plenty of people go to office and waste time--go out to lunch, shop online, gossip, etc. Oh but b/c they are in person, they must be working or are more committed...:roll: [/quote]

You missed the point entirely. [b]Many full time remote workers tend to think they are more valuable than they really are. They don’t have anyone to keep them in check or to give them a sense of reality.[/b] I’m not talking strictly about productivity. You are correct that people can waste time in either setting. And just because you’re remote working full time doesn’t mean you got to do that because you’re some Demi-god.[/quote]

lol this is one the dumbest things I’ve ever read. So, basically, you need to micromanage your employees to make sure they’re at their cube and monitoring what they’re working on. Because remote people need to be “in-check”?

Just admit you’re a micromanager and you don’t trust your employees.

But I get more work done remotely than wasting my time commuting, you coming to my cube to talk about the weather when I could be getting shit done in the peace and quiet of my home office. [/quote]

It’s not dumb at all. The remote workers on DCUM whine that they won’t be able to leave to pick up their kids, shuttle them to activities, do their laundry, start dinner during work hours. None of that benefits the employer one jot. [/quote]

Versus commuting for hours a week, doing pointless “team building” activities, office chitchat about nothing that wastes your time, pointless meetings about meetings, how is that any better?

If I’m home and I wanna do what you mentioned, as long as I get my work done, why do you care about those things? Do you need to know when I take a piss too? Your whole post just screams “control freak”.[/quote]

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