I’ve worked in the Netherlands and Belgium, both gave me compensation for travelling to work. In the Netherlands they paid my gas. In Belgium it was a fixed stipulation depending on distance and mode of travel. Honestly I can’t see how anything else is not just a rip off.
I’ve considered this many times. But I just can’t see a fair way to do this.
You either compensate with money or with time. I would gladly pay 3x my commute monetary cost to just teleport there, so at least in my case time compensation would be much better. So how to do it?
Option 1: Clock in when leaving the house, but that is incredibly easy to cheat.
Option 2: Calculate once per employee the time it should take them to get there based on their transportation method. They can just claim to commute in a time-inefficient method (such as walking or cycling) when they go in car instead. What happens to people that don’t always use the same method?
Option 3: Reduce the work hours for everyone by the same amount. This is amazing, but you can do this without claiming it’s for commute compensation. If you only do this reduction when not WFH, then you are basically punishing those who WFH and would have a short commute time. The ones on the top would just WFH 99% of the time from very far away and get massive commute compensations otherwise. Even then, the times they go to the office would be massively beneficial.
I’ve worked in the Netherlands and Belgium, both gave me compensation for travelling to work. In the Netherlands they paid my gas. In Belgium it was a fixed stipulation depending on distance and mode of travel. Honestly I can’t see how anything else is not just a rip off.
I’ve considered this many times. But I just can’t see a fair way to do this.
You either compensate with money or with time. I would gladly pay 3x my commute monetary cost to just teleport there, so at least in my case time compensation would be much better. So how to do it?
Option 1: Clock in when leaving the house, but that is incredibly easy to cheat.
Option 2: Calculate once per employee the time it should take them to get there based on their transportation method. They can just claim to commute in a time-inefficient method (such as walking or cycling) when they go in car instead. What happens to people that don’t always use the same method?
Option 3: Reduce the work hours for everyone by the same amount. This is amazing, but you can do this without claiming it’s for commute compensation. If you only do this reduction when not WFH, then you are basically punishing those who WFH and would have a short commute time. The ones on the top would just WFH 99% of the time from very far away and get massive commute compensations otherwise. Even then, the times they go to the office would be massively beneficial.
For money, it’s basically the same.
I just don’t think it can be done fairly.
That’s a really interesting insight, thanks. We just get so used to the norm that we know.