Re:Remote work can also be a source of socioeconomic inequality
by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @06:34PM
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Can someone help me understand this? The thesis is that remote work is making inequality worse, but all they show is an association between working remote and income. Where's the thesis coming from? Even if it was a causal association, with more remote work causing higher incomes, that seems like a good thing.
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Re:Remote work can also be a source of socioeconomic inequality
by rob2312 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @09:15PM
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> The higher a person’s salary, the most likely they are to be able to work from home
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> employees unable to work from home, such as restaurant servers, personal trainers or manufacturing workers, may be laid off temporarily or permanently, a burden that seems to be falling disproportionately on low-income workers.
People with higher salaries are more likely to be able to still work, whereas people with lower salaries in different sectors are far more likely to have been laid off due to the physical nature of the job. Hence poor people have been disproportionately hit, increasing income inequality.