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Exclusive: Google asked 5,600 employees about remote work. This is what they learned

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"‘I get valuable government benefits in my mortgage home deduction, childcare tax credits, my employer health benefits aren’t taxed,’ says Gilman. ‘Those are income transfers just as much as food stamps or welfare but I am not put through intrusive questioning, verification requirements, home visits, or anything like that to get those benefits.’"

From "Exclusive: Google asked 5,600 employees about remote work. This is what they learned".

Privacy as a class issue. I guess I hadn’t thought about this enough before. Perhaps privacy, like cashlessness, is more related to class than I had really thought.

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