<story><title>&quot;Equal pay for equal work&quot; in remote jobs</title><url>https://www.nityesh.com/equal-pay-for-equal-work-at-a-remote-company/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonjayr</author><text>Then companies should have no problems whatsoever with Unions?  I mean, if a group of employees want to get together to amplify their negotiating power, then they should not stop that?</text></item><item><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>&amp;gt; You should expect &amp;quot;equal pay for equal work&amp;quot; at your new remote job&lt;p&gt;So naive.&lt;p&gt;In an ideal, utopian world? Maybe it would work this way. Maybe.&lt;p&gt;In reality, your compensation is a function of your negotiating power. Some people, in fact, manage to get the same pay even when working remote, because they&amp;#x27;re &amp;quot;highly employable&amp;quot;. Others don&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;And let me add: I almost agree that remote work shouldn&amp;#x27;t necessarily command the same pay. A company&amp;#x27;s goal is to &amp;quot;extract&amp;quot; from each employee more value than his&amp;#x2F;her&amp;#x2F;their salary. If a company manages to save on a salary because the employee doesn&amp;#x27;t have much negotiating power, good for the company.&lt;p&gt;This is not to say that a company should do anything it wants, far from it. It simply means that if you accept that you live in a market-enabled society, your salary is at stake, too. You want to pay $2 dollars for milk, instead of $20? That&amp;#x27;s thanks to competition between companies. That&amp;#x27;s market forces at play. You want it there? Accept it on salary negotiation too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>renewiltord</author><text>Companies can&amp;#x27;t stop you from unionizing. They can choose not to accept the collective agreement and they can hire permanent replacement for strikers.&lt;p&gt;As for whether anyone should have a problem, you&amp;#x27;re welcome to have a problem. It&amp;#x27;s a free country. Whether that will lead to an outcome you desire is independent, though.</text></comment>
<story><title>&quot;Equal pay for equal work&quot; in remote jobs</title><url>https://www.nityesh.com/equal-pay-for-equal-work-at-a-remote-company/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonjayr</author><text>Then companies should have no problems whatsoever with Unions?  I mean, if a group of employees want to get together to amplify their negotiating power, then they should not stop that?</text></item><item><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>&amp;gt; You should expect &amp;quot;equal pay for equal work&amp;quot; at your new remote job&lt;p&gt;So naive.&lt;p&gt;In an ideal, utopian world? Maybe it would work this way. Maybe.&lt;p&gt;In reality, your compensation is a function of your negotiating power. Some people, in fact, manage to get the same pay even when working remote, because they&amp;#x27;re &amp;quot;highly employable&amp;quot;. Others don&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;And let me add: I almost agree that remote work shouldn&amp;#x27;t necessarily command the same pay. A company&amp;#x27;s goal is to &amp;quot;extract&amp;quot; from each employee more value than his&amp;#x2F;her&amp;#x2F;their salary. If a company manages to save on a salary because the employee doesn&amp;#x27;t have much negotiating power, good for the company.&lt;p&gt;This is not to say that a company should do anything it wants, far from it. It simply means that if you accept that you live in a market-enabled society, your salary is at stake, too. You want to pay $2 dollars for milk, instead of $20? That&amp;#x27;s thanks to competition between companies. That&amp;#x27;s market forces at play. You want it there? Accept it on salary negotiation too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>x87678r</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d think the opposite. When I&amp;#x27;m physically with people I can form groups, picket offices, go on strike. If I&amp;#x27;m a remote worker I&amp;#x27;m much more easily replaced and there isn&amp;#x27;t much I can do about it.</text></comment>