Company just mandated 5 days in office starting March. Marketing Coordinator, $78K salary.
My math: $450/month commute costs ($5,400/year) + 12 hours weekly = 600+ hours annually. That's essentially working for $13/hour just to get to my $37/hour job.
No raise offered. No adjustment for inflation. Just "collaboration" talk while half my meetings are still Zoom with distributed teams.
How are others handling RTO mandates? Are companies offering any compensation for the commute hit?

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It’s actually not easy especially now that the financial benefit of WFH is more obvious.

Part of me understands why companies don’t want to pay more, but from our perspective it is really inconvenient.

We have a commuting benefit to pay some public transit fees pre-tax or discounted but I don’t live in a big city so I don’t use it.

We did start offering stipends to furnish your home office and ability to expense a portion of your electric and internet bills during covid. Now they revoked that except remote only employees that work where we don’t have an office.

It sounds contradictory to me, but I relocated for my current job so I want to meet as many people in the office as I can and build relationships. I’ll take the digitally and in person.

I would love a commuting reimbursement though.

I charge most of my driving expenses to my LLC, so start free lancing on the side ;)

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