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posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 27 2020, @04:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the working-my-way-back-to-you dept.

There's been some recent speculation about the effects working from home will have on various parts of the economy, particularly the commercial real estate market. If companies can figure out how to keep employees productive, coupled with the desire for some to relocate to more rural areas (and consequently, farther away from the office), it's possible some companies may reconsider continuing to carry all the overhead associated with having an office.

Which leads to the question: should remote workers accept a pay cut for working remotely?

A recent survey of 600 U.S. adults found 66 percent willing to take a pay cut for the flexibility of working remotely.

To what degree varied, however.

  • Fourteen percent would take a one to four percent cut;
  • Twenty-nine percent would take a five-to-14 percent cut;
  • Seventeen percent would take a 15-to-24 percent cut;
  • Seven percent would take a 25 percent or more cut;
  • Thirty-four percent would not take a lower salary for flexible remote work.

The survey, taken from July 5 through 7 from Fast, a start-up specializing in online checkout, found COVID-19 safety concerns part of the current appeal of remote working. Thirty-nine percent were less comfortable returning to their physical office compared to 30 days before. However, 65 percent preferred a workplace that gives employees the flexibility to choose where and when they work remotely.

[...] The concept of "localized compensation" or paying someone less for the same work because of where they live is being hotly debated in human resources circles. In May, Facebook drew some backlash after announcing that employees choosing to permanently work remotely will receive salary cuts if they move to less expensive areas.

Originally spotted on The Eponymous Pickle.


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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday July 27 2020, @07:13PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 27 2020, @07:13PM (#1027251) Journal

    Since 64-bit float already can hold all possible values of real, there is no need for a 128 bit floating point format.

    But wait, now the new 128 bit floating point format can definitely hold all possible values of real. Really. For sure! This time!

    Next up, a 256 bit wide floating point format, so it can really, really, for real hold all possible values of real.

    Then next, 512 bit . . .

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  • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Monday July 27 2020, @11:45PM (2 children)

    by Immerman (3985) on Monday July 27 2020, @11:45PM (#1027399)

    Nonsense - any mathematician can tell you that The Real Numbers is an infinite set, and thus arbitrary specific values *cannot* be represented by any finite-length encoding.

    And any even middling decent computer scientist or programmer can tell you that floating point numbers categorically do NOT represent Reals, and exactly why you should never treat them as though they do.

    The more bits you add, the better the approximation you can achieve, but since an accurate representation would require infinite bits, no matter how many bits you add you'll always be infinitely far away from achieving true accuracy.

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday July 28 2020, @02:36PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 28 2020, @02:36PM (#1027624) Journal

      Since real numbers are an infinite set, that is why anyone arguing that a fixed size float (or even limited only by available memory size) float will have to keep moving to a higher and higher bit width.

      Moving from float 64, to float 128, to float 256, etc is the first of an infinite process.

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    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday July 28 2020, @02:37PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 28 2020, @02:37PM (#1027625) Journal

      Or maybe you don't get the joke.

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