Company can't afford $75 a month? Thats cheaper than the parking at my office which is $500/m per car.

But if you come to the office, they will have to pay that too. Electricity and internet is not free, even in offices.

After all, the whole point of this decision is to equalise the "windfall", as the article says.

If they already have an office, the marginal cost of electricity and internet is not likely to be as high as the employee's home internet cost.

Per the article, they only to pay a fraction of the employee's home internet cost

This was my first thought, but the article mentions the they interpret that situation to not be a necessary expense since your voluntarily working remote. Maybe not as bad as my first reaction.

The expenses listed seemed pretty typical for benefits. My last job already let me expense my cell phoen, internet, gave me a stipend for office equipment

Seems like it could be sorted pretty quickly if employers had to reimburse mileage and "reasonable commute times" for hourly calculations. Just the mileage for a 10 mile one-way commute would be $260/mo

I personally like this idea better anyway.

> If a company already has an office near you they may just say you need to come into the office, they will not pay for your internet and electric bill.

I've seen multiple employment ads in Seattle, "If you live within 50 miles of our office, this is an office position".

One had the balls to say "within 100 miles". In Seattle? Fuck that, 100 miles each way could easily be 2-3 hours each way.