Managers are carrot-and-sticking candidates with remote work to get people to sign on at lower salaries

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• Remote workers are accepting lower salaries in order to work from home. Some are taking as much as 5% to 15% less pay to do so, while other employers are reversing the strategy to entice workers to come to the office at higher salaries.

As major employers increasingly demand workers return to the office, we’ve witnessed a sometimes visceral negative reaction from employees who wish to continue working from home.