Silicon Valley's Tech Titans
Cut Pay For Staff
That Work From Home
Breitbart,
by
Tim Ciccotta
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
9/13/2020 12:19:24 PM
Software company VMWare announced recently that employees that opt to work from home indefinitely will be asked to accept as much as an 18 percent reduction in pay. Now, other companies in Silicon Valley have announced similar plans to decrease salaries for those that choose to work from home.
According to a report by Bloomberg News, companies in Silicon Valley may reduce pay for employees that opt to work from home indefinitely. Both Facebook and Twitter confirmed that they may adopt policies that would reduce pay for employees that opt to work from home.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
franq 9/13/2020 12:24:28 PM (No. 539432)
Racism!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
TruthFetish 9/13/2020 12:29:02 PM (No. 539436)
That's a good idea to propose to public school teachers
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/13/2020 12:48:51 PM (No. 539453)
I wonder if this is legal.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Violet 9/13/2020 1:08:36 PM (No. 539469)
If I were the person getting up, getting dressed, commuting to work, and showing up on time at the office in person, I think my workday should be more costly to my employer than the person who stays home and logs in.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Omen55 9/13/2020 1:19:00 PM (No. 539476)
Freedom to work from home is never free.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
john56 9/13/2020 2:00:31 PM (No. 539519)
If I'm doing the SAME work at home that I am doing that I would have done in an OFFICE, I'm thinking I should make the SAME MONEY.
And on top of that, I'm my own electricity, space, internet, etc. Maybe I should get a modest allowance for that as well.
My employer moved over 400 (of 500) office personnel home this spring; some will start coming back at the year end. But we can't bring them all back (as we were pretty close to each other) and actually pre-COVID-19 were looking to buy some adjacent property for more office space. We realized that we can operate our business with a significant number of people working from home, so the plans for the new building have been scrapped. We'll keep a lot of our people working from home and new employees will spend a few months in the office before being offered the opportunity to work from home.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
dirtyjersey 9/13/2020 2:00:39 PM (No. 539520)
They will be sending those work from home jobs to India and China.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
WestCoast 9/13/2020 3:11:30 PM (No. 539599)
as much as I detest everything political about silicone valley, I think what they are talking about is employees who opt to work from home an then move to an area with a much lower cost of living than the silicone valley area. My son and son in law are both fed employees, one atc, one leo. There is a cost of living differential depending on where they physically live and work. If they work in New York, they get paid more than if they work in Spokane.
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What if all those facing an 18% pay cut were to simply walk off their jobs en mass; you know in an online strike. Surely they are unionized and labor laws forbid immediate firings of striking workers. I expect California laws to be even more restrictive of what an employer can do to striking workers.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
planetgeo 9/13/2020 3:30:32 PM (No. 539623)
The employer has a right to set the work requirements for each position or classes of each position. The employee gets to choose whether to take it and adhere to those requirements. If they don't wish to comply, they can take an another position whose requirements better match their desired conditions. Otherwise they seek such a position elsewhere.
As for why coming to an office might be justified for higher pay, the ability to quickly and easily interact with superiors and peers is a legitimate issue. So is paying higher wages to said office employee to effectively pay for travel time and expense. In addition, let's be real, home-based employees often take advantage of their freedom at home to mingle personal needs with business needs.
Personally, I prefer working remotely. But my personal preference doesn't impact the logical argument why a given business may choose to pay office staff more for the same role.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 9/13/2020 3:39:26 PM (No. 539637)
There are going to be a lot of people moving to other states with lower property taxes and cost of living working "out of" Silicon Valley while working from home. They'll still be paying state income taxes, but everything else will be a lot cheaper.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
czechlist 9/13/2020 4:50:27 PM (No. 539697)
As a retired manager I would not have any problem with remote work with a caveat. I would want frequent one on one in person contact - at least a day in the office biweekly. I would want to interact personally with employees. An employee is a person - not a voice on the phone nor an electronic communication.
I always hated HIPPA. I was not allowed to ask employees about any health issues which I could assist with. After I lost a good employee because of a medical issue I was unaware of and could have intervened, I began ending every meeting with "Don't think I don't care about you and your family. I am not allowed to ask, so you have to come to me".
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