If teleworking is one of your priorities, would you be willing to This is what Google has proposed to its employees, who already said a few months ago that he was not going to put any impediments to teleworking but that it was not his ideal model. The measure must be understood based on the place where the employee who chooses to do so remotely resides or decides to reside.
That is, Google understand that it should not decide to live in Utah, Madrid or India because the cost of living in those places is lower.
The measure brought a deep debate outside and inside the company. Now we know that it is not working out for him at all.
Google employees do not want this measure or paint
Google recently bet on its New York workforce But to encourage its employees to make use of its huge real estate investments, some say the tech giant is using sticks, not carrots: Google employees relocating to less expensive areas of the country could see their salary cut.
In June, the company released a kind of calculator for employees that showed how much less they would be paid — anywhere from 5 percent to 25 percent less — if they moved from somewhere like the Bay Area or New York City to a cheaper location.
This does not seem to be liking their employees even remotely. In a survey for the outlet by employment app Blind, some 230 verified Google workers said they would consider leaving the company if they moved and had their pay cut.
Google, like many companies, says it has always based people’s salaries on where they live. But one could argue that adjusting pay for existing employees downward was a rarer case before the pandemic, and that with an increasingly dispersed workforce doing the same job, location-based payroll is becoming a thing of the past.
Google is left alone in its idea
Although at first it was thought that this could be extrapolated to other companies, it seems that at the moment it is not being carried out.
According to a survey conducted by the compensation data company Salary.com of 753 companies, 95% of them affirm that they will not lower the salary of workers who work remotely, regardless of their place of residence.
The technological giants, confronted by teleworking
Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have warned employees planning to leave expensive cities like New York and San Francisco that their pay will be slashed, while smaller tech companies like Reddit and Zillow say they will pay the same regardless of where employees live.
For his part, after announcing his return to the offices.
Google, which has some 140,000 employees worldwide, earned $61.9 billion in the second quarter of this year alone.
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