Quick question: if you are still regularly WFH since the start of the pandemic has your company compensated you in anyway for your home office? (Internet, printer, desk, etc)

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I don’t think it would be fair if they reimbursed me. We all have internet connections at home anyway. Did get a nice home set up (desk, monitor, laptop stand, keyboard etc). Saving a ton of money on commute, dogwalking service, $15 Dig Inn lunches etc. Not going to bother to ask my employer to pay for my toilet paper or whatever.

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Many people live near the offices so commute was never an issue for them. Getting a takeout for lunch is a choice. Others, especially larger households with kids, had to upgrade their internet and pay a lot more a month to make sure the speed is sufficient for multiple people working/studying at home. If you need to set up offices/working spaces for you AND the kids, it might get expensive. I think it’s fair for an employer to reimburse a small amount for buying a desk/chairs.

They shipped me a desk, chair and extra monitor. We already have a work phone with internet data and we were upgraded to unlimited data.

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Nope, nada.

Nadaaaaaaaaa

Yes - I was given a budget.

33rd street was not :/

Why should they compensate me? I’m saving a ton of money on commute.

IPG Health agency. Got $150.

I work at an Omnicom agency. We can expense up to I think $50 bucks per month for internet, but I don’t really do it because I hate filling out expense reports so much, that I would rather just pay it. I could probably ask for a monitor and Wacom, which I intend to do but haven’t. Of course they wouldn’t be mine. I’ve invested in my own chair, desk etc

$50/month.

Just got a monitor, and laptop

I fill out expense reports for my phone bill since WFH. I use it for work daily, so why not. I also got a bit to use towards an office chair, it wasn’t outright offered I was ballsy and asked for it.

No

We get $100/mo stipend

$500 one time payment and $50/month allowance moving forward.

It's paid out as taxable income if we choose to use it for non-work related purposes. Or we can provide receipts showing that it was used for work-related expenses and then it's non-taxable.

I’m curious are there state laws for this? I haven’t been so fortunate. How do you get your company to compensate you for internet and cell phone?

My company just started a $50/month WFH stipend

No, but they offered up the office if your internet was slow. Seriously.

As of this year, we're now getting $50/mo toward home internet. Just announced.

$0 from Dentsu

Yes. We got $250 early last year to buy office supplies or furniture, and we can expense $50 a month to help pay for internet. They also give us monitors if we want. At one point they also gave us $100 to buy something to help either our physical or mental health. You could put that money to stuff like running shoes or an online membership to a yoga studio or something.

My agency let us expense up to $100 for office equipment, plus borrow what we need if were near an office already. In addition, we get an extra $25 a month added to our paychecks for our internet reimbursement.

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