According to Wired, Google employees are expressing concern about the company’s decision to cut salaries of remote workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For many workers, it is unfair to cut workers’ salaries based on where they work. The report sampled the opinions of two people, Mike (name changed), a senior software engineer at Google, and Laura de Vesine, a former Google engineer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For Mike, who wants to continue working for the company remotely, he is facing a pay cut that amounts to a loss of four years of salary increases, although he is still undecided whether to continue working for Google.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Laura de Vesine, for her part, left the company the moment she was told that she would take a 25% pay cut. Vesine explained what had happened: “There was a discussion about moving our team to North Carolina, and that was originally floated as a 15 percent pay cut.” Initially, she reasoned with the decision until they changed it to 25%. For Vesine, “The bait and switch was very upsetting. And once I was angry about it, I started questioning why there was even a 15 percent cut. What is it about my work that is somehow less valuable in a different location?”<\/p>\n\n\n