On one side, I think you should be paid according to your experience and what the company will benefit from your work.
In the other hand you work to make a living, and it kind of is not fair that if you live in a cheaper country, you'll get a better quality of life (based on what you earn) than a person earning the same in an expensive country.
Also, there's this difficulty of leveraging companies in different countries. A company in, say, Romania, can't compete in terms of salary with a company in Canada, even thought they can hire the same exact people.
So we'll all want to work for Canada, leaving Romania with less options for workers.
But I feel that the way Facebook so doing it is petty. They have all the money in the world and it seems they'll lower their workers salary if they wish to work from home? I'm not sure if this is the case. If it is, it's crappy, if they're talking about future decisions of new employees than I don't think it's that bad.
Execution will be everything. I hope that companies don't do it just for the sake of paying less. But, yeah, I feel that will happen, as always
This is just an idea, I haven't fully thought about it :)
If you live in Poland and earn 3000USD month and your colleague earns the same but lives in San Francisco, you'll have a better living standard than your SF colleague, because it's cheaper to live in Poland. It wouldn't be fair for the guy living in SF.
That was my reasoning. It has some validity but probably has counterpoints :)
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I probably didn't explain myself correctly. I don't think some people should get more, I think they should get the same according to the living-cost of the places they live. But that is next to impossible to measure, of course.
But yes, I wholly agree with
I think that as long as we're not talking about the kind of wages where you can't afford to live, it's not an issue.
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Its not an easy subject.
On one side, I think you should be paid according to your experience and what the company will benefit from your work.
In the other hand you work to make a living, and it kind of is not fair that if you live in a cheaper country, you'll get a better quality of life (based on what you earn) than a person earning the same in an expensive country.
Also, there's this difficulty of leveraging companies in different countries. A company in, say, Romania, can't compete in terms of salary with a company in Canada, even thought they can hire the same exact people.
So we'll all want to work for Canada, leaving Romania with less options for workers.
But I feel that the way Facebook so doing it is petty. They have all the money in the world and it seems they'll lower their workers salary if they wish to work from home? I'm not sure if this is the case. If it is, it's crappy, if they're talking about future decisions of new employees than I don't think it's that bad.
Execution will be everything. I hope that companies don't do it just for the sake of paying less. But, yeah, I feel that will happen, as always
What do gou mean "its not fair"? Why?
This is just an idea, I haven't fully thought about it :)
If you live in Poland and earn 3000USD month and your colleague earns the same but lives in San Francisco, you'll have a better living standard than your SF colleague, because it's cheaper to live in Poland. It wouldn't be fair for the guy living in SF.
That was my reasoning. It has some validity but probably has counterpoints :)
What do you think?
I think that as long as we're not talking about the kind of wages where you can't afford to live, it's not an issue.
So what if the person in SF doesn't have the same perks? They don't magically "deserve" more because of where they live.
I probably didn't explain myself correctly. I don't think some people should get more, I think they should get the same according to the living-cost of the places they live. But that is next to impossible to measure, of course.
But yes, I wholly agree with