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Google 'pay calculator' suggests staff who work from home could face pay cuts: report

Employees who decide to work remotely and move to less expensive areas of the country may be subject

Google 'pay calculator' suggests staff who work from home could face pay cuts: report

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Reuters viewed screenshots of Google's salary calculator, and reported that a worker living in Stamford, Conn. -- which is an hour from NYC by train -- would be paid 15% less if they worked from home . Yet a colleague from the same office who lived in the city wouldn't receive the same pay cut if they switched to remote work. Other screenshots also showed 5% and 10% differences between remote and in-person workers in the Seattle, Boston and San Francisco areas. In fact, employees could see as much as a 25% decrease in salary, depending on where they decide to live.</p>\n<p>Google was not immediately available for comment. \"Our compensation packages have always been determined by location, and we always pay at the top of the local market based on where an employee works from,\" a Google spokesperson told Reuters.</p>\n<p>Google has more than 135,000 employees worldwide, and CEO Sundar Pichai said in April that the company expected 20% of its workforce to be remote by this fall . 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The calculator allows employees to learn how their decision to work remotely could impact their salary based on where they live and/or where they may move.\nAnd employees who choose to work from home permanently instead of going back into the company's office could receive lower salaries. Such pay cuts would namely occur if the employee decided to remain remote and move to a less expensive area, away from the office whey they would work in-person.\nFor example, an employee who normally works at Google's New York City office would not be penalized if they permanently worked from home in the Big Apple -- but they would be paid less if they moved to North Carolina or Virginia and telecommuted.\nBut in some cases, workers who already live far away from a Google office could also see a pay cut if they decided to start working from home full-time rather than continuing to make the long commute. Reuters viewed screenshots of Google's salary calculator, and reported that a worker living in Stamford, Conn. -- which is an hour from NYC by train -- would be paid 15% less if they worked from home . Yet a colleague from the same office who lived in the city wouldn't receive the same pay cut if they switched to remote work. Other screenshots also showed 5% and 10% differences between remote and in-person workers in the Seattle, Boston and San Francisco areas. In fact, employees could see as much as a 25% decrease in salary, depending on where they decide to live.\nGoogle was not immediately available for comment. \"Our compensation packages have always been determined by location, and we always pay at the top of the local market based on where an employee works from,\" a Google spokesperson told Reuters.\nGoogle has more than 135,000 employees worldwide, and CEO Sundar Pichai said in April that the company expected 20% of its workforce to be remote by this fall . It is not clear at this time whether the potential pay cut for employees seen in the internal calculator is for U.S.-based workers or the company's global workforce.\nWhether remote workers should see lower salaries has been a hot-button topic many companies have contended with since the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many employees to work from home. Twitter and Facebook have cut salaries for employees who are working from home thatmoved to less expensive areas areas of the country. \nMorgan Stanley $(MS)$'s chief executive James Gorman recently said that he wants workers to return to the office, or face salary cuts .\n\"If you can go into a restaurant in New York City, you can come into the office,\" he said. \"If you want to get paid New York rates, you work in New York. 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