Comments on: Would you take a pay cut to web work?

By: Dale

Dale — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:05:32 +0000

I would take a $6,000 pay cut to work a half a week at home. I think I could actually get more done this way. You know what I mean when you are in your office it seems like everyone has something that is so important to tell you. I just want to do my work get paid and leave. LOL That is what I go in for the check not the company.

By: pixel

pixel — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:40:41 +0000

Oh and I forgot the cost of computers, printers, ink, and paper, internet and ftp hosting. Doesn’t really compare to saving on clothes, or dry cleaning, especially since I dress the same at my home office as I do when I go into the office, Meals? Umm yep I still eat…and gas…don’t have a car. Wait maybe I should get a raise!

By: pixel

pixel — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:03:58 +0000

NO! The company saves on telephone, office rental, supplies, utilities…which I am now paying to keep my home office. I love that I can work from home, but just keeping my current salary, I make less money and the company saves.

By: David Meyer

David Meyer — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:20:29 +0000

No. The company would be saving money in real-estate by nit having me parked there. Having worked from home for most of my career, I think my company is getting a good deal more out of me

By: Rufus Dogg

Rufus Dogg — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:13:10 +0000

This is kinda crazy. Corporations always forget the other side of the equation on any cost savings and just look at the expense line. All this is doing is lowering the salary average for everyone. Just like quality; costs are shaved by using cheaper materials and then they are shaved again but everyone forgets that the material was shaved to get those costs-savings in the first place. Eventually, you end up with a crappy product or service that fails in the marketplace and everyone wonders why.

Same with people and salaries. Eventually, you shave and when the original person who took a 60% pay cut moves on, the company tries to fill the job with the same payroll dollars, can’t with a quality person and does eventually with someone less skilled, less qualified. Arguments advocating for salary parity will fall on deaf ears. And then everyone wonders why it all falls apart. Just gutted from within.