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Google employees who take to enactment from location permanently whitethorn look wage cuts, according to a study by Reuters.
Workers with longer commutes were reported to person the highest pay cuts. Reuters recovered that an employee surviving successful Stamford, Connecticut, an hr from Google's New York office, would beryllium paid 15% little moving from home, but a workfellow surviving successful New York would spot nary cut.
Another Google worker chose to marque a two-hour commute to the Seattle bureau alternatively of a 10% wage chopped for moving from location full-time.
An worker moving successful the New York City bureau volition beryllium paid conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic idiosyncratic moving remotely successful the aforesaid area, a Google spokesperson told Reuters.
Julia Pollak, main economist astatine ZipRecuiter, said companies cutting wages for distant workers whitethorn spot a alteration successful worker retention.
"Culturally, we're seeing a emergence successful wage transparency, and radical consciousness precise powerfully that it's not just to beryllium paid antithetic amounts for the aforesaid enactment and for the aforesaid prime output of work," Pollak told USA Today.
Pollak noted reports indicating remote work is present to enactment and employees are consenting to discontinue and find enactment elsewhere if it's taken away. She said changing the wage for an worker is hard to bash careless of location.
Although distant enactment comes with less costs, specified arsenic state for commutes, employees volition reason the prime of their enactment hasn't changed, truthful their wage shouldn't either, Pollak said. She said the emergence successful distant moving changed economics: Companies wage employees based connected the worth of their work, not their location.
"The companies that accidental that they volition wage radical the same, careless of the idiosyncratic choices they marque astir whether to unrecorded retired of their cars oregon retired of mansions, volition person the precocious hand," Pollak said. "Pay cuts for distant enactment volition not beryllium received well."
Google did not reply a petition for remark by USA Today.
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