Today I Learned (TIL) @lemmy.ca Don_Dickle @lemmy.world 3 mo. ago

TIL In a 2022 survey by FlexJobs, 45% of remote workers reported saving at least $5,000 annually and one in 5 remote workers estimated saving $10,000 a year.

www.usatoday.com How much is that remote job worth to you? Americans will part with pay to work from home

American workers save thousands of dollars when they work from home and will accept a lower salary for a remote position, research shows

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1 yr. ago

Working from home saves Americans $6,000 on food, commute, clothes

www.usatoday.com /story/money/2023/10/16/americans-save-money-by-working-from-home/71140252007/

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Working from home for me is worth about $3,000 per year in gasoline alone.
- And think about the savings in road rage stress, and time wasted commuting.
- And that doesn't even include cost of living.
  
  I would spend at least 500€ a month for comparable living standards in the city the nearest office is located in. And even then, I'd live somewhere in a half-ghetto 1h away from the office.
  
  I'd be really interested in statistics about the amount of actual in presence work. Maybe software development is the absolute outlier here, but every single team I've worked in was distributed in some form. If half the team is 500km away anyway, being in the office changes nothing compared to being at home.
- £2600 tube fare, and that's not counting lunch, coffee etc.
- About $7k in mass transit costs for me.
  
  And then they wonder why I said "none" to "how many days a week will you be in?"
  
  Where do you live that transit costs you that much? That's astonishingly high.
- The freedom to backpack around other countries while working remotely is worth about $20,000 per year to me
Assuming you only take 2 weeks off to make the math easy, every $4 per day you save equals $1,000 per year.

If you have decided to raise kids, the difference between paying for childcare and not is already quite the savings.
- (52 weeks) - (2 weeks) = 50 weeks
  
  (50 weeks) x (5 days/week) = 250 days
  
  (250 days) x ($4/day) = $1,000
Party is over. My wife's work recently mentioned no raises for remote workers.
- Constructive termination imo.
  
  Well she just needs a new job. This fight ain't gonna a be won by staying at the same.e job anyway unless you are getting the raises and promotions, which doesnt really happen for vats majority.
  
  Got to keep moving
  
  Make them fire you. Openly campaign to unionize. You might actually win lol
- Why does that matter? The best way to increase your salary is usually to change jobs every 1-3 years anyway.
  
  Because in those 1-3 years, every year you stay in a job without a raise matching inflation you've received a pay cut.
I'm definitely in the 10k camp

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