Google employees who work from home could lose money

Re:Google employees who work from home could lose money by throw123123123 on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:08AM (#28129769)

Workers collectively dont get to value their own labor. There price is the market price, and remote work always paid a lot less than in-office work, for obvious economic reasons.

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Re:Google employees who work from home could lose money by vetinari on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @03:09PM (#28132884)

Please elaborate more on the "obvious economic reasons".

For some reason, I don't see anything economic (do you care where stuff is made? I don't, really, only that it gets made, the rest is irrelevant detail), nor obvious here.

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Re:Google employees who work from home could lose money by throw123123123 on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @09:06PM (#28136739)

There are more people in the remote pool than in the in-office pool. Also it is better for employees to be remote than to be in the office, meaning they are willing to get a paycut to get it. Lastly COL and tax adjustments.

There are perfectly capable engineers in this world making under 1000U$S a month, they are just not in the US.

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