Amazon Is Selling Its 29-Acre Bay Area Property as Return to Office Stalls

Re:Amazon Is Selling Its 29-Acre Bay Area Property as Return... by sokoloff on Monday January 30, 2023 @05:57PM (#34587848)

If your employer dictated where you worked AND where you lived, the time traveling between the two would logically be their responsibility. Since they've only dictated at most one of those two things, I don't see it as reasonable for them to pay you to move between a place they didn't pick and one they did.

My office used to be just outside of Boston. Could I move to Utica, NY and claim that my 8 hour round-trip was the entirety of my work obligation and that I was, by definition, "meeting expectations" merely by driving back and forth every workday?

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Re:Amazon Is Selling Its 29-Acre Bay Area Property as Return... by dublinben on Monday January 30, 2023 @06:19PM (#34588112)

If your employer requires you to report to an office to work, then they are indirectly dictating where you live based on the salary they pay you. It is rational for people to live in the best / most convenient place they can afford to. Why else would the people cleaning your office live an hour or more away, while senior employees can live a only short walk / bike / drive away?

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Re:Amazon Is Selling Its 29-Acre Bay Area Property as Return... by mensetmanusman on Monday January 30, 2023 @06:25PM (#34588181)

I wish they forced us to live in $8,000,000 mansions near the office/CEO’s house.

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Re:Amazon Is Selling Its 29-Acre Bay Area Property as Return... by thrwawy74 on Monday January 30, 2023 @06:08PM (#34587975)

I'm sure this is a false equivalency in some way, but many gov postings have wages set to the locality. My cousin was offered wages for a particular agency location, and required to move to the area.

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Re:Amazon Is Selling Its 29-Acre Bay Area Property as Return... by sokoloff on Monday January 30, 2023 @06:14PM (#34588042)

If your cousin had the freedom to pick the specific address in a reasonably broad area, I think the worst-case obligation for that agency would be to cover the commute time from the single closest residential address to the agency's location. If your cousin picked a place farther away than that, for whatever combination of reasons mattered to them, they own the outcome of that choice (same as I'd own the decision to move to Utica).

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