[tmoaad]

>If employees choose to relocate but their presence is required on a regular basis (1 week per month or several weeks throughout the year), depending on your budget, it is reasonable to expect them to cover their own travel costs.

Really? If my employer started doing this, I would be looking for a new employer long before I'd start paying for my own travel costs.

[iandanforth]

It's an interesting question. If you're a sales guy, traveling is part of your job and the company pays for it. Anyone who is required to be in the office is assumed to be "commuting" and that is often not compensated (but sometimes is if you use public transit etc). So maybe the fuzzy line is personal travel to work isn't compensated but travel away from work/home for the purposes of work is.

I'm not sure there is any rock solid logic behind any of this though.

[drewcoo]

As long as they also pay you for the office space you would have used had you been local it seems fair to me.

[ghaff]

So long as an employer has approved you to go remote from an office, the cost of you coming into an office now and then is on them. And, frankly, if you just move without telling them, you're potentially committing tax fraud. Of course, it's possible to reach informal agreements--let me go remote and I'll pay for coming in now and then. Though, personally, I'd hesitate to do so because that agreement might not last beyond getting a new manager.

[em-bee]

some employers do pay for employee transportation but for this case it depends on how you got hired. this is a point for negotiation.

assuming you previously lived near the office and then decided to move without there being any benefit to the employer then why should they pay for your additional expenses?

unless of course they decide to cut your salary because of your new location. then it's up to negotiations again.