> It’s also unknown how many of Nothing’s 450 employees live close to the office. Many professional workers bought homes outside London during the pandemic.
Wow, harsh. I hope they pay well enough to compensate for that crazy policy.
If so, that’s not how any job has ever worked; they don’t pay for your house if you get let go
Where I live in Spain we have to downpay 30% and a mortgage would generally be granted to about 3x the annual salary. So to get a third of that would be quite significant.
The government in my country once tried to get companies to move to undeveloped regions. It was an unmitigated disaster. No homes, no infrastructure and if your employer goes bankrupt you're stuck in the boonies.