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Originally Posted by Lubicon
Slight tangent here but on this topic, has anyone who has been WFH had their employer partially compensate them for the increase in costs? I understand there is the tax writeoff portion and I suppose there is savings from not having to commute so maybe most companies justify it that way. My employer provided us with equipment (monitors and maybe a laptop) but no direct compensation to pay for the increased cost at home.
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I found that I was better off using the $400 a year. Essentially the Den/Office that I use is like 5% of the square footage in my house. If I add a bathroom and the egress way to the Bathroom that it goes up to around 10. So with 10% of my bill, than factor in that I'm only doing 40 hours a week out of 168 for work...that's 2.5% of the utlity costs that I can attribute to working from home, which for me worked out to $123 on the year.
My company basically told our staff you still have a job and you didn't have to drive to work...you're winning.
As I stated earlier I noticed up to 150kwH bump per month which also was impacted at times by having two kids also doing online school. Heating really was unchanged.