Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home.
november@lemmy.vg 20 hours agoThen how about the employer gets to pick one of two options: Either compensate for a reasonable commute, or pay a wage that allows the employee to live within walking distance?
spongebue@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Arguably there is an average commute time baked into the wage already along with other expenses people have in life. I’m not sure it needs to be itemized out as its own thing.
And this also assumes an IMO flawed assumption that working from home is entirely expense-free. I have a decent work area in my home. If I didn’t, that space could be used for another kid’s bedroom. Or a craft room for the wife. Or a dedicated Lego room. Or a sex dungeon. Maybe some of those things can be paired up with an office easily enough, but that’s my choice, not my employer’s. Plus there are other day to day costs, like the electricity to run my equipment, the Internet connection I probably would have had in the 21st century but technically don’t have to, heating/cooling costs… You get the idea.
november@lemmy.vg 19 hours ago
You brought up fast food workers in your first comment only to then make this one all about office workers, how come?
spongebue@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Because I’m talking about different things: paying for commute times for jobs that could be done at home, and paying for commute times in general.