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roland3510/11/20242 repliesview on HN

Number one benefit to companies to allow WFH: they can pay me a senior level pay for staff level seniority, and I still come out ahead living in the Midwest versus moving to SF or NYC.


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SunlitCat10/12/2024

Aren't there some companies that consider this (where the employee lives) when calculating their salaries?

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tightbookkeeper10/12/2024

This is a good way to negotiate the value of your personal wfh arrangement.

But from the company R&D perspective, saving is kind of a loser argument. Cash is cheap. In pg terms we are trying to make the album that sells a million copies, not optimize the margins on nightly gigs.