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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Guys, I'm not sure the issue here is about working in an office v. working from a home.

This is about appropriate compensation based on geographic location.  The rationale would be the same if a company hired somebody to work in a HQ office in NY or a satellite office in Tucson....[/quote]

No. Some of it is definitely about whether being in an office is or isn’t more valuable and therefore deserving of more compensation. COL is also a factor but not the only one.[/quote]

Exactly. For example, I worked with plenty of people who work in DC or tech firms in Reston who lived way out in West Virginia and would commute for 2-3 hours a day. They lived in a low COL town but still got compensated at a typical salary. They didn’t get penalized because they lived out west. So it’s all about control and wanting people back in the office because those companies are paying millions to lease out these buildings.  It’s not like you’re working less because you live somewhere else. [/quote]

I don’t know how many times we can point out that this is not what these policies actually do.  You don’t get paid more for coming into the office. [/quote]
Then what is the point of the policies? Give me one logical explanation. [/quote]

They are not logical.[/quote]

Part of Google’s brand is about people being in on campus doing Google-ly things. If you’re not on campus, then you’re not contributing to the serendipitous things that help make new ideas pop, as one example.[/quote]

Fine, but the Google compensation policy has nothing whatsoever to do with that.  A google employee who WFH full time in SF gets the same comp as one who works in the office 7 days a week in Mountain View.  The WFH only gets a pay cut when he moves up to Boise.  It has nothing whatsoever to do with being in the office.  I’m not sure why that’s so hard to understand.[/quote]

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