In a Silicon Valley experiment, Facebook and Twitter also cut the pay of those who move to cheaper areas
A sign is pictured outside a Google office near the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California. Picture: REUTERS/PARESH DAVE
Alphabet’s Google stands out in offering employees a calculator that allows them to see the effects of a move. But in practice, some remote employees, especially those who commute from long distances, could experience pay cuts without changing their address. The employee was considering remote work but decided to keep going to the office — despite the two-hour commute. “It’s as high of a pay cut as I got for my most recent promotion. I didn’t do all that hard work to get promoted to then take a pay cut.”
Interviews with Google employees indicate pay cuts as high as 25% for remote work if they left San Francisco for an almost as expensive area of the state such as Lake Tahoe.
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