Employees Are Accepting Lower Pay in Order to Work Remotely

Honestly, the idea of forcing people to return back to the office has to be a line in the sand which we cannot capitulate on; no one wants to be forced to return to that situation if they don't want to and have not had a drop in performance.

Most things have shown that productivity didn't go down, in fact for some it went up even higher and that reflects itself in having more content employees who are willing to stay and take lower pay rather than just leave for a remote first company--which I'd argue needs to be the default for most tech jobs.

I refuse to suffer in an office just to prop up the artificially high prices of commercial real estate holders because this class of people can't seem to want to get it through their heads that WFH is a viable model that should be followed if we really care about solving climate change as well as allowing people to avoid the unnecessary burdens of having to commute to an office when we have soaring gas prices and higher costs of living.

Lower wages are, begrudgingly, the better alternative; but rest assure that employee will be seeking for a new remote role and will leave you without any hesitation, and you'll be lucky to get 2 weeks notices the way things are going.

I enjoyed being in the office sometimes. It was nice to get out of my apartment and be around people. I only had like a 4 minute commute, though.

I thought that widespread remote work was putting upward pressure on salaries because it was easier for workers to switch companies. But remote work can also save employees a lot of money and time, so people take remote jobs over higher-paying jobs. No commute, no pressure to live in an expensive area, maybe even no babysitter.

>Companies are paying less to remote workers who do the same job.

Like always.

That's not a good development for employees, this is downward pressure on wages (which are already battered by inflation).

market dynamics, damn. by the time i go to get a job again the clouds made of dollars will have drifted away.