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if they work for the same company and deliver the same value... yes that is exactly what I'm saying.

Categorically, the value of remote workers is lower than the value of local workers.

This is largely due to network effects and the higher efficiency of communication with co-located teams. I’m a software engineer, and like other software engineers, my job is something like 50% communication and 50% coding/testing/operations. As you go up in seniority and expertise, the ratio shifts more and more in favor of communication. A fresh graduate or more junior employee might have a larger share of coding/testing/operations.

The communication side of my job is suffering like never before during mandatory WFH.

This might be on you and the company you work for. Many companies have remote work baked into their culture and from my experience, the quality of communication tends to be quite high

My communication with the guys sitting beside me has gone down but my communication with those in a different building has gone up.

The thing is, they’re not paying less for remote workers. They are paying more for local workers living at high cost areas

This is just marketing spin, I’d like to think that the people in this discussion are talking about the merits of a pay differential, and the way you phrase it is not really the point under discussion here.

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