According to reports, if Google employees choose to work from home permanently, their salary will drop by up to 25%. In addition, employees who worked in the same office before the epidemic will find different changes in their salaries, and employees who commute for a long time will be hit harder. In the past few months, about 10,000 employees have applied to Google to move to a new location when they resume work, or work remotely from home.
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In this regard, Google said last Tuesday that once its office resumes work, 85% of the employees who made the request will be satisfied.
Recently, Google has provided employees with a salary calculation program that allows employees to understand the impact of this move (working at a new office or home) on salary. The calculation program shows that some employees who work remotely, especially those who commute over long distances, may experience salary cuts without changing their addresses.
A Google spokesperson said: “Our salary plan is always determined by location. We always pay employees a higher local salary based on their location.” The spokesperson added that employees Salary will vary from city to state.
According to Google’s salary calculation program, Google employees commute from a nearby county to the Seattle office. If they work full-time from home, their wages may be reduced by about 10%. A Google employee once considered working remotely, but now decides to continue to the office, even though the commute takes two hours. The employee has just been promoted recently. If he chooses to work from home, the salary increase from the promotion will be offset.
In response, Jack Rosenfeld, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, said that Google’s salary structure has aroused people’s vigilance about who is most affected. Rosenfeld said: “Obviously, Google does not have to do this. For those employees who choose to work remotely, Google is not unable to pay the previous salary.”
The salary calculation program also shows that an employee who lives in Stamford, Connecticut (an hour’s train ride from New York City), if he works from home, his salary will be reduced by 15%. Colleagues who live in the same office in New York City will not suffer any cutbacks for working from home. The program shows that the differences in Seattle, Boston, and San Francisco are 5% and 10%, respectively.
Interviews with Google employees show that if they leave San Francisco to an almost equally expensive area in the state, such as Lake Tahoe (Lake Tahoe), the salary reduction for telecommuting can be as high as 25%.
It is reported that Google’s calculation program uses the Metropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA) of the U.S. Census Bureau. For example, Stamford in Connecticut is not in the CBSA in New York City, although many people there work in New York.
A Google spokesperson said that Google will not change the salary of employees based on their work from the office to the remote office in the city where the office is located. For example, the salary of an employee working in an office in New York City will be the same as an employee working remotely in another location in New York City.
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