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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish employers would stop painting telework/remote work as some super valuable luxury they “provide” to employees.  Unless you work for a firm that provides a stipend or reimbursement, you are on the hook for developing your own office space and maintaining office supplies yourself, including maintaining an internet connection.

Anyway, given the flexibility it provides for pickups/dropoffs/sickdays, I would take maybe a 10-15% pay cut. That said, it’s no skin off their back to “let” you work from home and in fact requires a much lower investment. I went from making 80k for a 4-day in office job to 115k fully remote. [/quote]

Most of us already pay for home internet and have a desk or a dining room table we can work from.  The added costs are...pens? Refilling the printer ink 2x per year? It's pretty minimal.[/quote]

100% agree. There is more value to the employeee than the employee with telework. It’s entirely correct for it to be marketed as a benefit. Women with children especially benefited from remote and telework options during the pandemic and we’ve seen how rolling back that benefit has caused workforce participation among that demographic to drop.

My views on the value of telework to the OP align with the posters saying it depends on her overall financial picture and costs savings she will accrue from teleworking three days. If the OP will struggle financially if she makes the move then she should only make the move if dropping out of the workforce entirely is likely if she stays at five days a week. If the cut won’t significantly impact her financial picture and everything else is equal then based on the fact that she is a mother of preschool aged children who may value the better work life balance provided by fewer days in office I would say she should take the job, especially if being in office might cause her to consider dropping to part time or taking a break for a few years. There are lots of financial benefits to having good physical and mental health and keeping your foot in the door when it comes to the work. [/quote]

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