Posted on 09/11/2020 1:14:18 PM PDT by RightGeek
Link only because Bloomberg.
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A lot of these workers have left the country. Gone to Costa Rica, etc.
LOL! That is one of funniest lines I have read here in quite a while.
Information is valuable, don’t let the company know your business. If they were willing to pay more while your location was thought to be in one place, why let them know you’re in another?
The funny thing is East Coast based remote workers who end up a with a Silicon Valley gig feel like they hit a gold mine.
You might need to qualify that statement with “ a lot of coders who are citizens”. ;)
Yeah, good point. The ones I know don’t really care for the culture of the bay area (except the food) but you go where the work is. But $150K in Montana goes a lot farther than $200K in Silicone Valley
I grew up in Montana and I totally agree.
it’s not a pay cut if their cost of living goes down, and if their original employment contract didn’t include a clause for up-and-WFH’ing ... then ... sorry employees.
Mandatory meeting after lunch.
Only if they're told up front that re-locating means an adjustment in pay.
“Only if they’re told up front that re-locating means an adjustment in pay.”
In this case, they are being told if they want to work from home and that home is in a different area, their pay may be adjusted. I guess they can decide they don’t want to work from home or want to stay in the Bay Area. Of course, if they don’t want to work remotely and the company decides they want people to be working remotely, they might just lose their job entirely...
Since you're going to have to enroll with a CA insurance plan the company will never know - because you're never going to have a paid insurance claim.
Since March 2nd of this year, all of I.T. has been WFH. During that time, some of us have re-located to different parts of the country and kept our big city salaries.
Two weeks ago, the bank announced I.T. was going to be remote work only (unless there was a darn good reason we had to be in office) and we were all free to move anywhere we wanted to.
In the announcement, there was zero mention of pay adjustments based on locations we ended up in. Five years ago, some of my co-workers re-located to a southwestern state where we stood up a new data center, they took their big city salaries with them. Consequently, we've been told our salaries remain the same where ever we go.
I'm targeting S.E. Tennessee. Taking my big city salary with me is going to be nice.
As I said, what VMWare and Twitter are doing is flying in the face of what my employer is doing. I guess VMWare and Twitter don't value their employees.
You’ve got a good company, and they obviously consider it a good investment to be able to keep the talent and institutional knowledge represented by their IT staff. I think that is what SMART COMPANIES should do, but then again, we are talking about Twitter and Facebook...
I consider myself very fortunate being with the employer I am. Sometimes I’m just gobsmacked at how poorly other employers treat their employees.
People don’t seem to understand that paying an Asian wage is usually an option for the employer as well; that is what many of us are competing with now.
You people have more in common with antifa than Republicans.
I worked for two companies and had my position rolled into Boston once, and hartford the second time. My base salary was changed upwards both times. I never moved an inch. It was great.
Drug-addled, boy-raping baby-killers, (who like smaller government)
Yup, just regular normal guys.
“Since March 2nd of this year, all of I.T. has been WFH. During that time, some of us have re-located to different parts of the country and kept our big city salaries. “
I’m WFH since March and there is no immediate sign of going back. If anything, productivity has gone UP. However, there is still some turnover, people retire/drop dead, etc....This isn’t a sustainable mode of operation. How do you really “onboard”?
Maybe this will give companies more thought to onboarding people. My “onboarding process” amounted to being thrown to wolves and allowed to sink or swim. But I was THERE.
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