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At the risk of this discussion devolving into a flamewar, I would just encourage you to do your own research about this situation.

Regardless of all other arguments about location-based pay, Google et al have been paying their temporarily-remote employees 100% of their salary up until now.

These companies would need to spend lots of resources to legally navigate pay cuts to already-agreed-upon contracts.

And they would also have to weigh the risk of those employees leaving for better pay elsewhere.

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> These companies would need to spend lots of resources to legally navigate pay cuts to already-agreed-upon contracts.

My pay went down by like 40,000 when I moved to fully remote. Whatever cost was involved in setting up a new contract for me is surely quite a bit lower than that.

> And they would also have to weigh the risk of those employees leaving for better pay elsewhere.

The industry hasn't settled on a standard, but the number of companies that offer permanent remote work at SF pay scales and also pay the same as Google is pretty low. Attrition for pay is real, but it isn't like Facebook doesn't do the same cuts.

Advising someone do their own research is a cheap way to circumvent providing any sources.

It’s also confusing. Does that mean they think I didn’t do research? My basic operating model is that we’re all doing our own research all the time and using it to form opinions.

I wasn’t sure if GP was saying they disagree with me, think I didn’t research, think I was relying on someone else’s research, didn’t feel like doing their research, or something else.

I’m not sure your intent, but yes, I’ve done my own research on this. And I did it before my comment and I think my comment stands given my research.

Im not sure what contracts Google has. My contacts there don’t have any contracts guaranteeing pay or term, just stock awards. So it’s not a contract issue to raise (or lower) pay. I think it’s more an issue of whether employees will quit and whether they can continue attracting new employees.

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