Google’s WFH pay cuts are a backwards move in our new hybrid world
Digital performance agency DMPG managing director, James Wawne, looks at Google’s response to Working From Home (WFH), and examines the steps forward essential for today’s working life.
Google made the headlines last week for all the wrong reasons as news broke that the company had set up a calculator that determines pay cuts for employees choosing to work remotely long term.
The tech giant’s new internal calculator, revealed in screenshots obtained by Reuters, works out potential pay cuts for its employees based on where they live. The screenshots showed Google employees would have their pay reduced for living in suburban areas with the California suburb of Lake Tahoe, for example, attracting a 25% reduction.
