Google to Buy New York City Office Building for $2.1B

Re:Google to Buy New York City Office Building for $2.1B by mikewarot on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @09:52PM (#28612310)

The value the worker provides to google doesn't vary with location. If someone wants to live in an overpriced urban area, that's their choice. Why should google have to subsidize it?

It shouldn't matter where in the United States you live, NYC, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, or some forsaken place like Indiana, etc.. If you get your work done, you should have the same responsibilities and benefits.

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Re:Google to Buy New York City Office Building for $2.1B by WaxProlix on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @10:18PM (#28612469)

Salary already isn't directly proportional to value added, so I'm not sure where that idea comes from.

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Re:Google to Buy New York City Office Building for $2.1B by sangnoir on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @02:24AM (#28613605)

IMO, it affirms the "rugged individualism" mythos, and has a sprinkling of the fundamental attribution error.

Salaries are mostly controlled by market forces, opening up to remote work will result in a larger supply of potential employees, to include those who were previously not considered, but are good enough, and are willing to accept less than current Bay Area/coastal salaries.

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Re:Google to Buy New York City Office Building for $2.1B by kesselvon on Thursday September 23, 2021 @04:19PM (#28634722)

Thinking salaries are governed by market forces is a fundamental attribution error

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Re:Google to Buy New York City Office Building for $2.1B by sangnoir on Saturday September 25, 2021 @01:21PM (#28654722)

Then why does having simultaneous competing offers result always result in a higher salary? Typically higher than the "maximum" figure originally signaled

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