Google employees who work from home could soon be paid less
Google: Will employees working from home soon receive less salary? (Photo: Shutterstock-Jay Fog)
For the US employees of Google, the home office could soon have financial consequences. Employees fear loss of wages.
Working permanently in the home office is a real game changer for many people: By eliminating the need to commute, working people save a lot of time. By eliminating the need to travel to and from work, there is also a lot of money. For most people who get along well with a working environment in their own four walls, the model has many advantages: more time and more money – it is a good place to live. But for US employees at Google, at least something could change in terms of income in the future. Like the Reuters news agency now reports, the employees who work permanently in the home office could soon receive less wages – according to the rental prices of their place of residence.
Home office employees with reduced salaries?
Google has launched an in-house wage calculator especially for this purpose, which Reuters got an insight into. Employees can use it to understand the financial effects of the new home office rule on their salary. “Wages differ from city to city and from state to state,” says a spokesman for the internet giant. Reuters gives a few calculation examples: Anyone who moves from New York to Stamford in the US state of Connecticut, an hour away, has to expect a 15 percent wage drop. Anyone who relocates to the suburbs of Seattle, Boston or San Francisco would have to receive five to ten percent less salary.
“Our remuneration packages have always been location-dependent, and we always pay at the top of the local market, depending on where employees work,” Reuters quoted the Google spokesman further. So far, the concept has only been used when moving. When asked whether the salary of employees would also be adjusted in the home office, the spokesman avoided: Employees who work in a company location are paid the same as employees who work from home in the same city. How employees are remunerated who previously worked in an office in a city and now have their home office outside the company location, he leaves open.
