| Disagree, shoes/clothes costs are not at all compatible with the costs associated with physical location of work costs. Accounting departments spend a great deal of focus on fixed asset depreciation for tax purposes, and general office planning. Eventually, work places move to new buildings- office buildings get old and in disrepair from use. These costs that a company accepts as part of doing business get offloaded to the remote employee. It's most certainly a planning factor doing business- check out a SEC form for instance. With remote work, that cost gets offloaded to an employee. You won't see the impact on your house for a long time, but unless companies are subsidizing you to afford a bigger home to account for additional office space needed, that wear and tear from use, that asset deprecation as a result of work use, comes into your actual home. So the question should be along the lines of: - where is your fixed asset depreciation as a part of doing business for your taxes? Are you filing it? Your company certainly is. or - are the remote work benefits enough for having to accept this cost without financial augmentation or -are you getting paid enough extra to cover this. Odds are most workers who work remote won't/don't consider this, but your company certainly is for its own workplace, why not you? You've leased out part of your home for your company's workspace essentially, but done so free of charge. |