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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by freedomben on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @10:30PM (#23162797)
I just don't see why from a company's perspective you would pay two equally qualified/titled people massively different salaries based on the city they choose to live (which is completely irrelevant to the company). If I were an employer and one person wanted 125k and the other 400k, that seems like a no-brainer to me when they are both remote workers and equally qualified.

If they offer to raise the person getting 125k to 400k if they move to an expensive area, then at least it's fair :shrug:

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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by nemothekid on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @10:46PM (#23162906)
Companies do not pay based on CoL. The 400k guy is going to be looking at competing offers in that range. If Google decided they would only pay based on Kansas salaries, and Apple only hired local, why would you ever consider a Google offer when Apple pays 3x as much?
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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by whywhywhywhy on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @09:13AM (#23166548)
By that logic why would either of you be paid 6 figures when someone the other side of the world can do the same for 5 figures?

If it doesn't matter where you are to work for the company then why does it matter if you're even in America.

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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by freedomben on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:04PM (#23168303)
That's a great point, although from my experience working with teams on the other side of the world, the language barriers (and even time zones) are enough to make it so the work is not equivalent. Theoretically though it could be. It's more difficult in practice however and may end up costing the company more, so could be cheaper to pay someone more who is local to headquarters and the target market, than less on the other side of the world.
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