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Re:Amazon Engineer Sues for Work from Home Costs by dragonwriter on Sunday June 12, 2022 @12:49PM (#31715951)
> If they have to pay 15k for home office rent then salary will just be 15k less.

I mean, if you assume a monopsony where market clearing prices are set by demand alone, with no supply side effect, sure.

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Re:Amazon Engineer Sues for Work from Home Costs by treis on Sunday June 12, 2022 @01:01PM (#31716063)
Not really. If the market clearing price was X before there's no reason it will change from X. The compensation will just in the form of Y rent + (X - Y) salary
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