Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while paying SF and NY salaries

Re:Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while pay... by petercooper on Monday February 15, 2021 @04:13PM (#26147494)

And that's the reason why UK rates are so low. Relatively few people meet the conditions of both wanting to move (for cultural or family reasons, say) and being able to move (visas being the main impediment here - as someone who considered it 15 years ago, moving to the US to work is no walk in the park).

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Re:Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while pay... by 908B64B197 on Monday February 15, 2021 @04:51PM (#26147945)

Time to negotiate better visa options for UK engineers!

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Re:Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while pay... by mrkstu on Monday February 15, 2021 @08:04PM (#26149783)

Good for the engineers, not much incentive for the government to lose their best and brightest to the US.

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Re:Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while pay... by petercooper on Monday February 15, 2021 @04:54PM (#26148002)

I'm not optimistic, but if the UK and US ever do a trade deal, an Australian or Canadian style deal that allows more freedom of labor would certainly be interesting.

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