Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever

Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by SiVal on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:41AM (#23163539)

If your employer thinks you're in California, they'll tell the California tax authorities that you are. CA will use that as evidence that you owe them a big chunk of your income. If you don't pay, you'll have to fight. To win, you'll probably have to prove that you misled your employer, which will probably result in your getting fired for it. If you lose, CA can force your employer to take the tax out of your salary, so you'll pay California anyway plus you'll probably have to pay the place you actually live if you've done anything to establish residence. Along the way, any number of other unpredictable problems can arise (bad credit rating, legal threats, ongoing disputes with entities that don't understand or care that you've surrendered, etc.)

Good luck with all of that.

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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by taurath on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:57AM (#23163612)

I think it’s gonna get really weird. If a company pays the same in seattle as SF (or near), and A person lives in SF, I’d rather pay a friend in WA state a few hundred a month to “rent a room” than 10% of my income to California.

That said there’s probably a bunch of laws around faking residency for tax purposes which id imagine has some hefty consequences.

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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by NotSammyHagar on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @02:34AM (#23164101)

Many faang companies pay the same 'higher' salaries at the same rates across seattle, sf, and nyc. The fangs used to do that when i worked there, but i wonder if they pay more in sf now? I'm sure some companies will want to pay you less if they can get away with it. But twitter will probably have to pay almost as much to keep their devs if they move. that's the key, keeping your workforce.

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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by austinheap on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @03:32AM (#23164418)

Patently untrue -- there are fixed ratios for each band v city. With all due respect such a bold claim deserves a link.

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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by NotSammyHagar on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:09PM (#23169092)

It used to be that way 3 years ago when I worked at Google. I don't have a link, it was personal knowledge. I'm 100% sure of it. They actually paid more for the zurich office cause taxes were so high.

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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by ceras on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @07:39PM (#23173200)

> They actually paid more for the zurich office cause taxes were so high.

Google pays for cost of labor, not cost of living. While related, it isn't the same: for example, Google London pays much less than NYC, and Tokyo even less than that; yet Pittsburgh pays only slightly less than NYC despite being far and away the cheapest of the 4.

I believe Google's competitors tend to follow this model more than cost of living, especially internationally.

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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by mhdhn on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @02:09AM (#23163971)

There are lowcost areas of CA.

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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by closeparen on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:23AM (#23176465)

So you'll make 4.5x a local salary instead of 5x.

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