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And workers should be paid to have space to work from home and internet service and food and office supplies and electricity.

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I'm a remote worker and I get an annual stipend to equip my home office and reinbursement for my internet and cell phone.

The stipend is flexible. Some of my coworkers stocked their home office with snacks, for example.

Some do. My last full time role had some $100/month stipend for personal supplies. Pretty much paid for my internet bill in that time.

Another before that had some 3000 dollar a year stipend for approved office supplies over the pandemic; basically anything that wasn't groceries could be put on there. I even fancied putting a PS5 on there at once point, but then realize high quality office chairs and desks would drain that stipend quickly.

I do get paid 50 euro per month for working remotely. It's on my contract. I didn't ask for it, but it's ok.

Agreed. I'm glad that I at least get reimbursed for a portion of my home internet connection and for office equipment.

Most of which you would have anyway. I never cared about incremental costs for internet, electricity, etc. if any. I could have probably collected double-digit dollars per month during COVID but I wasn't even officially remote anyway.

> Most of which you would have anyway.

Data caps exist and also higher service reliability tiers cost more.

The standard residential plan I had was fine for any work purposes. As far as I'm concerned, incremental needs for normal work are in the noise. I did have outages now and then but they were pretty much for reasons that would have applied to any business service as lines were down.

I definitely pay for more bandwith than if I wasn't working from home. Also I saw a difference in my electricity bills.

And also workers should be paid for not working 26 days per annum, it's more than a full month!

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