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Careful with this kind of demand. It’s possible that companies may pay the office workers their increased rate simply by reducing pay to remote workers.

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If they think that this is good allocation of their resources, why shouldn't they? (rhetorical question, it's because remote workers are not 2h of commute time per day less productive).

They will do that anyway, by offshoring fully remote jobs. There will be a minority of very high-level experts who will be able to dictate their terms, as indeed happened even before Covid, but the vast majority will not.

i don't think I'd mind that actually. I'd happily take a slight pay cut to be able to stay home

Who said anything about slight? Assume your average commute is 1 hour each way. According to most HN users, the average dev can’t do more than 3-4 hours of “intense focus” work per day. Instead of paying you for “10” hours of being in the office and commuting to, I’d pay you for 3-4 hours of “intense focused” work. That’s 50%, being generous.

what an insane standard. it's easy to find sources for an average commute [0], your assumption is more than double the total of <1h both ways. and as far as I know nobody has ever paid by hours of "intense focus," not sure how that's at all relevant to this conversation.

we're really talking about 1h of an 8h workday, so about 11-13% depending on your denominator. not trivial but something I'd happily do.

0 https://www.zippia.com/advice/average-commute-time-statistic...

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