 Company offering employees $10,000 to leave Bay Area 
 
 Zapier is offering new employees $10,000 when they accept a job and move away from the Bay Area. Zapier will provide up to $10,000 to help relocate you and your family to your new home outside the Bay Area. Zapier CEO Wade Foster says the offer is part of an experimental de-location package for the company. Foster moved from Missouri to the Bay Area five years ago and acknowledges the many benefits to living here, like being in the heart of the tech scene. "Not to mention the fantastic weather, the adjacent beaches, wine country, ski country, and more that the area has to offer—it truly makes the Bay Area one-of-a-kind," Foster writes in a blog post. We know other cities are expensive to live in too, but this is an experiment for us so we want to see how it goes before expanding the program. Targeting people who are looking for a more affordable place to leave, but don't want to sacrifice potential career opportunities.Zapier integrates apps to make your workflow smoother and share data. So if you're living in the Bay Area but thinking about making a change that will improve your family's standard of living, we're eager to help. You'll have to work for the company for at least a year to qualify for the $10,000 offer. We'll go through the hiring process together and if it seems like you like Zapier and you've demonstrated the necessary skills for us to make an offer, we'll help set you up with the relocation package as part of it. There is some fine print involved: The $10,000 can only go toward reimbursing moving expenses for the first three months the employee is working at the company. "Over the weekend we've seen quite a few people apply for our open positions citing interest due to the de-location package," Foster told SFGATE in an interview. The housing crunch and high cost of living simply price out many families and, despite loving the area, the realities are many of us need to look elsewhere to create the life we want for our families.
– Tech company Zapier says San Francisco is a fantastic city—and it would like to encourage its employees to move far away from it. In a blog post, CEO Wade Foster offers a $10,000 "de-location" package to new recruits who are struggling with the cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area, which has some of the country's highest rents, but are worried about moving away because they don't want to give up tech career opportunities, ABC7 reports. All of the workplace automation company's employees work remotely, and the firm thinks "you should be able to work wherever you want and still work at a place that helps you achieve your career goals," Foster writes in the blog post. "I know there are quite a few people in the Bay Area who are new parents looking to find a better standard of living," Foster tells the San Francisco Chronicle. "It's difficult for a family of four to afford rent, a mortgage, or child care here in the Bay Area. Even if you are a two-income family this can still be difficult." The $10,000 will be used to reimburse moving expenses in the first three months, according to the fine print, and those who take Zapier up on the offer have to agree to work for the company for at least a year. Foster, who moved to the Bay Area from Missouri five years ago, says he still loves the area but is considering moving away with his wife "because there are benefits of being in a lower cost of living area and being closer to family." (Speaking of expensive things...)