I'm definitely in the 10k camp
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Party is over. My wife's work recently mentioned no raises for remote workers.
Why does that matter? The best way to increase your salary is usually to change jobs every 1-3 years anyway.
Because in those 1-3 years, every year you stay in a job without a raise matching inflation you've received a pay cut.
Sure but chances are you would have the same issue if not changing jobs. The best way to get a raise is to change jobs.
Constructive termination imo.
Make them fire you. Openly campaign to unionize. You might actually win lol
Well she just needs a new job. This fight ain't gonna a be won by staying at the same.e job anyway unless you are getting the raises and promotions, which doesnt really happen for vats majority.
Got to keep moving
Working from home for me is worth about $3,000 per year in gasoline alone.
The freedom to backpack around other countries while working remotely is worth about $20,000 per year to me
About $7k in mass transit costs for me.
And then they wonder why I said "none" to "how many days a week will you be in?"
Where do you live that transit costs you that much? That's astonishingly high.
Tristate area, commute to NYC, only option is a private carrier. Prices change based on the cost of fuel mostly, varies from $500-700/mo.
And yes, it's absurd.
Edit: I should add that's the discounted monthly option for 40 trips (so 20 days of commuting). If I pay each day, it's $100/day, which is what I do now since I don't commute in enough anymore to be worth any of the discounted commuter options.
£2600 tube fare, and that's not counting lunch, coffee etc.
And that doesn't even include cost of living.
I would spend at least 500€ a month for comparable living standards in the city the nearest office is located in. And even then, I'd live somewhere in a half-ghetto 1h away from the office.
I'd be really interested in statistics about the amount of actual in presence work. Maybe software development is the absolute outlier here, but every single team I've worked in was distributed in some form. If half the team is 500km away anyway, being in the office changes nothing compared to being at home.
And think about the savings in road rage stress, and time wasted commuting.
Assuming you only take 2 weeks off to make the math easy, every $4 per day you save equals $1,000 per year.
If you have decided to raise kids, the difference between paying for childcare and not is already quite the savings.
(52 weeks) - (2 weeks) = 50 weeks
(50 weeks) x (5 days/week) = 250 days
(250 days) x ($4/day) = $1,000