别人家的公司：科技公司员工在家工作可得1000美元奖金
苹果公司创始人史蒂夫•乔布斯或许是科技界最受尊敬的幻想家，但他不喜欢在家工作。
乔布斯更热爱让同事们面对面交流，以实现冲突最大化。他相信激烈争吵会激发创造力，他对皮克斯工作室总部的建筑细节相当在意，主要宗旨就是鼓励同事“偶然”的摩擦，众所周知连洗手间的设计他都亲自过问。
时代过得真快。如今，硅谷的后浪已将前辈的信仰冲进厕所。为了阻止冠状病毒传播推行居家隔离措施，从Facebook到Twitter，科技行业一些最知名的公司正在重新考虑办公政策。
由于被迫让员工居家办公，企业已开始采用新规范。一些公司甚至鼓励员工留在家，还提供1000美元奖金。
公司理由很充分。办公室员工人数减少意味着对办公空间的需求更少，管理费用更低。该趋势也可能导致希望住在旧金山和纽约等大城市之外房价更低地区的员工工资降低。
以下列举了一些提供奖金鼓励员工居家办公的公司。
居家办公室潮最先由Twitter掀起。5月中旬，首席执行官杰克•多尔西表示，多位员工可能改为永久在家办公，从而加快之前公司制定变得更“分散”的计划。Twitter为远程工作的员工提供高达1000美元补贴，用于购买家庭办公用品。
跟Twitter一样，Facebook也向员工提供1000美元的现金奖金，鼓励居家办公。公司预计，到2030年将有一半员工远程办公。但也存在陷阱。本周首席执行官马克•扎克伯格在虚拟聊天中表示，选择住在更便宜社区的员工可能会减薪。
为了帮助员工转为远程工作，数字存储服务公司Box也在掏腰包。最近一篇博文中，Box的首席执行官亚伦•莱维表示，将向居家办公的员工发放数额不详的津贴。Box发言人凯特科内塔发在给《财富》杂志的电子邮件中进一步说明，今年早些时候提供过300美元补助，本次会再加上300美元，居家办公总共可获得600美元。“从Box员工收集更多保持工作效率的信息后，会考虑提升补贴额度，”她表示。
电商巨头Shopify也为居家办公的员工提供现金奖励，金额为1000美元。主要为了帮员工顺利过渡到远程工作，为置办居家办公设备提供补助。
加密货币巨头也为支持虚拟办公的员工提供资助。今年5月首席执行官布赖恩•阿姆斯特朗宣布，Coinbase“将支持远程办公”。Coinbase发言人埃利奥特•萨瑟斯对《财富》杂志表示，封锁开始时，Coinbase提供了500美元补助。
公司鼓励带薪居家办公是对史蒂夫•乔布斯工作方式的背弃。但对于喜欢宅在家的人来说，这项措施肯定很受欢迎。顺便说一句，如果选择居家办公，也可以为家庭办公室申请税务减免。（财富中文网）
译者：冯丰
审校：夏林
苹果公司创始人史蒂夫•乔布斯或许是科技界最受尊敬的幻想家，但他不喜欢在家工作。
乔布斯更热爱让同事们面对面交流，以实现冲突最大化。他相信激烈争吵会激发创造力，他对皮克斯工作室总部的建筑细节相当在意，主要宗旨就是鼓励同事“偶然”的摩擦，众所周知连洗手间的设计他都亲自过问。
时代过得真快。如今，硅谷的后浪已将前辈的信仰冲进厕所。为了阻止冠状病毒传播推行居家隔离措施，从Facebook到Twitter，科技行业一些最知名的公司正在重新考虑办公政策。
由于被迫让员工居家办公，企业已开始采用新规范。一些公司甚至鼓励员工留在家，还提供1000美元奖金。
公司理由很充分。办公室员工人数减少意味着对办公空间的需求更少，管理费用更低。该趋势也可能导致希望住在旧金山和纽约等大城市之外房价更低地区的员工工资降低。
以下列举了一些提供奖金鼓励员工居家办公的公司。
居家办公室潮最先由Twitter掀起。5月中旬，首席执行官杰克•多尔西表示，多位员工可能改为永久在家办公，从而加快之前公司制定变得更“分散”的计划。Twitter为远程工作的员工提供高达1000美元补贴，用于购买家庭办公用品。
跟Twitter一样，Facebook也向员工提供1000美元的现金奖金，鼓励居家办公。公司预计，到2030年将有一半员工远程办公。但也存在陷阱。本周首席执行官马克•扎克伯格在虚拟聊天中表示，选择住在更便宜社区的员工可能会减薪。
为了帮助员工转为远程工作，数字存储服务公司Box也在掏腰包。最近一篇博文中，Box的首席执行官亚伦•莱维表示，将向居家办公的员工发放数额不详的津贴。Box发言人凯特科内塔发在给《财富》杂志的电子邮件中进一步说明，今年早些时候提供过300美元补助，本次会再加上300美元，居家办公总共可获得600美元。“从Box员工收集更多保持工作效率的信息后，会考虑提升补贴额度，”她表示。
电商巨头Shopify也为居家办公的员工提供现金奖励，金额为1000美元。主要为了帮员工顺利过渡到远程工作，为置办居家办公设备提供补助。
加密货币巨头也为支持虚拟办公的员工提供资助。今年5月首席执行官布赖恩•阿姆斯特朗宣布，Coinbase“将支持远程办公”。Coinbase发言人埃利奥特•萨瑟斯对《财富》杂志表示，封锁开始时，Coinbase提供了500美元补助。
公司鼓励带薪居家办公是对史蒂夫•乔布斯工作方式的背弃。但对于喜欢宅在家的人来说，这项措施肯定很受欢迎。顺便说一句，如果选择居家办公，也可以为家庭办公室申请税务减免。（财富中文网）
译者：冯丰
审校：夏林
Steve Jobs, perhaps the most revered of tech visionaries, disliked the idea of working from home.
The Apple cofounder preferred to maximize in-person collisions between colleagues. He believed rubbing elbows cast sparks of creativity, and he obsessed over architectural minutiae in the headquarters of Pixar Animation Studios to encourage that "serendipitous" friction—including, famously, the layout of toilets.
How the times change. Today, the scions of Silicon Valley are flushing the faith of their forefathers down the loo. Prompted by shelter-in-place measures designed to thwart the coronavirus pandemic, some of the tech industry's most recognizable companies—from Facebook to Twitter—are reconsidering their office policies.
Forced to let their employees work from home, businesses are beginning to adopt that as the new norm. Some companies are even encouraging their employees to remain remote, sweetening the deal with $1,000 bonuses.
Companies have good reason to do so. Having fewer employees in the office means less need for real estate, less overhead cost. The trend could translate to reduced wages for employees who seek to live in cheaper areas, such as outside major metropolises like San Francisco and New York City.
Here are some of the companies doling out money to help people set up home offices.
Twitter kicked off the trend. In mid-May, CEO Jack Dorsey said many employees could shift to working from home permanently, accelerating plans already in place for the company to become more "distributed." The micro-blogger site is providing teleworkers an allowance of up to $1,000 to buy home-office supplies.
Like Twitter, Facebook is offering employees a $1,000 cash bonus to work from home. The company expects half of its employees to be working remotely by the decade's end. But there might be a catch: CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on a virtual chat this week that employees who choose to live in cheaper neighborhoods may receive reduced pay.
Box
The digital storage service is dipping into its cashbox to help employees shift to telework. In a recent blog post, Box's CEO, Aaron Levie, said the company would hand employees who work from home a stipend of an unspecified amount. Kait Conetta, a Box spokesperson, clarified in an email to Fortune that this will consist of $300 on top of another $300 stipend offered earlier this year, yielding a total of $600. "We will be evaluating increasing this as we hear more from Boxers on what they need to remain productive," she said.
Shopify
commerce hotshot Shopify is another tech company providing work-from-homers moolah to stay home. The company is giving a $1,000 stipend to ease the transition for teleworkers and helping them to set up home offices.
Coinbase
The cryptocurrency giant has currency up for grabs for employees who favor a virtual setup. Brian Armstrong, the company's CEO, declared in May that Coinbase "will be a remote-first company." Elliott Suthers, a Coinbase spokesperson, told Fortune that Coinbase offered a $500 stipend when the lockdown started.
Companies encouraging work from home with payouts is an apostasy of the Steve Jobs way. But it's a welcome measure for the homebound. By the way, if you work from home, you can also possibly get a tax write-off for your home office.
