> in Paris employers have to pay half your season ticket
That sounds awful - so I effectively get a paycut if I walk or ride to the office?
Re:UK to depart from GDPR
by mytailorisrich on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:54PM
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I don't understand how you can interpret it as either awful or a paycut if you don't take public transport...
If you buy a season ticket (at least a monthly ticket) to commute between your home and office you send a copy to HR and they have to refund you half of it.
That sounds like a massive incentive to hire very locally!
Re:UK to depart from GDPR
by mytailorisrich on Friday March 12, 2021 @03:21PM
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It's cheap enough that employers don't bother (and anyway it's usually not possible to...). So, no, it's not a "massive incentive".
In cities like Paris, public transport has huge capacity and is cheap (and in Paris employers have to pay half your season ticket).
Lower growth there does not mean that we're doing better, it means that we're starting from lower... And the UK has had a robust population growth as well.