“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 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.