Hi there,<p>Does anybody have any experience with how salaries for jobs where you work from home compare to equivalent office-based jobs? Would you expect to be paid more because you have to pay for your own electricity, etc., or does it not really make a difference?
Where I work, people who telecommute or frequently need to do work from home after hours have their internet access paid for. Asking for your employer to pay for electricity seems silly.
<i>Would you expect to be paid more because you have to pay for your own electricity</i><p>As someone who is in the process of hiring people, if you brought that up to me during the interview/hiring phase, it would be a black mark. Why? I'm offering you a great deal - WFH - yet here you are being greedy and wanting more. Depending on the needs, I might feel comfortable paying for internet but that's the only thing.<p>Right or wrong, that's my first thoughts.
For the record, I wasn't suggesting that I would say in my interview "please pay me extra for my electricity", I was aiming more for the general feel of "how do salaries for WFH jobs typically compare with office-based jobs", and suggesting things like electricity costs as potential factors as to why I thought there might be a difference in the first place