"Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs

Re:"Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs by kome on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @10:12AM (#25137587)

> In reality, your compensation is a function of your negotiating power. Some people, in fact, manage to get the same pay even when working remote, because they're "highly employable". Others don't.

OK, but if you go in front of the employers as individuals, 1 might gain, but everybody will lose. That's not how work relationship works.

I get that on HN everybody feels like a genius and individualism is rampant. But that's a fertile ideological environment for mass exploitation.

Tech workers are just workers first and foremost, and the same dynamic of the labor market are true for tech workers, as they are true for anybody else.

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Re:"Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs by da_big_ghey on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @10:29AM (#25137818)

> 1 might gain, but everybody will lose.

Exactly. Based on talking with others about their salaries, I usually seem to be one who gains. So I will oppose efforts to normalize pay for a given role because I will lose and probably take a pay cut.

There's also nothing wrong with paying more or less for a job. Some people are better workers, period. This is true even if they have the same job title.

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