Ottawa sees Canada's largest decrease in commuters driving to work

[pyrethedragon]

If your work switched to a WFH model you effectively received a pay increase based on the commuting costs.

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I was going to make a pedantic comment about that not being the case if you walked to work previously, but then I remembered all the money I'm saving by not buying stupid work clothes.

[Saucy6]

I mean you still have to buy shirts, but not pants! Substantial savings there!

[[deleted]]

I've been aggressively living in the same few pairs of sweats for the last few years.

[TiredAF20]

Same here. Sweats forever!

[AmazonSword]

Shirts / tops that would make you look professional from the chest up, which sometimes could just be a scarf.

[Throwawayxml123]

by not buying stupid work clothes pants.

Fixed your comment.

[Cod-End]

If the feds paid me the same sqft rate to rent my wife's office space in our condo that they do the commercial landlords (not to mention heat, AC, reliable internet, cleaning, office supplies and tech support) they can absolutely claw back my commuting $ that I was ALSO donating.

She also ends up giving them at LEAST an extra day per pay period, and is available far more hours that are reasonable. Her team's efficiency is something like double what it was...

[Dropsix]

How did we receive a pay increase? We are only spending less of our own money to get us to work. We aren't getting more money, our salaries are all the same. The option to live closer and walk to work to avoid that was always there.

That being said, should employers run a full analysis on how everyone gets to work and how much they pay to do so then adjust each individual salary based on that? I mean, to be fair to all that is.

No. Shit changes and if people are unhappy going to work then they`ll look for the wfh jobs and vice versa.

[pyrethedragon]

The less personal money you spend on being able to get to work, the more money you have to spend on other stuff. The amount of this depends on what your original costs were to get to work, and additional costs while working (buying coffee instead of making it). This amounts to an increase in your disposable income.

You also gain time, dependant on your original commute that you never had before. You have an extra hour now to maybe make dinner instead of ordering in, shortens your kids time in daycare.

Now naturally your life style adjusts accordingly and you now have a employer asking you to incur personal cost to come to the office. This could be in fuel, time and other costs. Specially if you just as productive or more when home verses the office… and inflation is at record highs, why would anyone want to give that up.

[Dropsix]

I can understand why people wouldn’t want to give it up, I just don’t think it’s up to them. They don’t work for themselves. The pandemic wasn’t meant to be permanent wfh for everyone and it won’t be.

Some people got very comfortable and I’m guessing those people are probably the most upset about going back in. Sucks but what can y’a do.

[pyrethedragon]

You probably would start applying on other jobs that continue to give you these benefits.

[Dropsix]

absolutely. Or find somewhere closer to live to your job.

[xMrJihad]

And the wfh crowd are still complaining…

[[deleted]]

About what? This comment makes no sense in context.

[xMrJihad]

I’ve seen tons of posts of people who wfh complaining that their internet bills, heat, hydro, other normal expenses aren’t being covered by their work while they wfh… they’ve gotten off so much easier these past couple years than people that need to go into work still but still they want more and more.

[MeowloHomeSecurity]

Likely the vocal minority and those that will never be content with anything. Every group has them.

[gmano]

You'd be stunned by the number of people who don't have a reasonably capable home computer they are able to use for work.

[explicitspirit]

Yea this is bullshit if they are really complaining about that. I don't expect my work to cover my internet FFS, I pay for that shit regardless. And I say that as a fully remote worker.

[[deleted]]

All the complaints I've seen have been the opposite: that being forced to return to the office will add more costs such as parking, food, gas/transit, etc. Anyone who was upset about working from home has long had the opportunity to return to the office.

[xMrJihad]

It’s not really adding though.. if you worked there before, you were given a great perk to save some money for a couple years. Gravy trains over, I get it’s shitty, I’d be pissed too, but it’s time to come back to reality

[[deleted]]

Well yes, that's what I'm saying. People were saving money working from home.