Re:CA employers must reimburse remote workers for all necess...
by red-iron-pine on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @11:45AM
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Nah. Conventional wisdom says that "front loaded costs" of an employee are anywhere between 50-100% of an employees salary.
These costs cover a lot of things, to include health insurance, retirement (401k, Superannuation, etc.), but also cost of things like a desk, licenses for an employees computer & software, building/rental insurance for the office, and expected costs of heating and AC for said office (which can be costed and amortized out over a number of employees per year, per floor, etc.).
Most of that is built in, and the cash you save by not having to heat a giant fucking office can be turned into a $1500-on-hiring stipend for office gear and licenses. That corporations got themselves locked into terrible leases, or beholden to state and local tax incentives that drive RTO is not the worker's problem.
And that's a pittance compared to the amount of cash you can save by sending the jobs out of SV or NYC to Denver, or Nashville, or Upstate NY, and paying well, well above market but still $50k less than big city rates. If I have to eat a $1500 buck remote-worker-chair-subsidy to outsource to Shasta or Redding, and save $10k in the process, then so be it.
These costs cover a lot of things, to include health insurance, retirement (401k, Superannuation, etc.), but also cost of things like a desk, licenses for an employees computer & software, building/rental insurance for the office, and expected costs of heating and AC for said office (which can be costed and amortized out over a number of employees per year, per floor, etc.).
Most of that is built in, and the cash you save by not having to heat a giant fucking office can be turned into a $1500-on-hiring stipend for office gear and licenses. That corporations got themselves locked into terrible leases, or beholden to state and local tax incentives that drive RTO is not the worker's problem.
And that's a pittance compared to the amount of cash you can save by sending the jobs out of SV or NYC to Denver, or Nashville, or Upstate NY, and paying well, well above market but still $50k less than big city rates. If I have to eat a $1500 buck remote-worker-chair-subsidy to outsource to Shasta or Redding, and save $10k in the process, then so be it.