At a certain multinational company that Anon(a close friend) is currently employed at had this way of distributing bonuses when the pandemic hit.
Context: the company is chasing a $100mn y-o-y growth at this point.
- All employees in the US offices get a hefty bonus for the profits they contributed to
- All employees in the India office were to not receive bonuses/increments because we wanted to cut costs (not to forget, Indian salaries are 20% of their US counterparts)
- All employees in the US were to get reimbursements for stylish/modern/gaming chair while working from home($300 a piece)
- All employees in India had to get their $40 chair approved from the manager (request denied in most cases, "unnecessarily too costly", he said)
- No more bonuses for India offices for the next year or so because we spent all the money on the US employees and the managers bonuses
- Indian new hires are getting offered the salary that someone with 5 years exp is already working at in the company
<puts on tin-foil hat>: distribution of bonus/increments seem to have an upper limit. the less you distribute as a manager = the more you have for yourself and your favorite juniors
<anecdote>: ^^ one of the favorites from above actually quit the next day after getting the bonus. it's common to put in your papers right after the increment letter.
I can relate to each one of those points. It's awful to feel treated unequally even though you're doing the same work. Before this trend of remote work, usually the solution was to just migrate to a developed country.
In most contexts this would be more open to interpretation, but since (a) I just asked you to stop posting nationalistic putdowns (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26803989, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26809750), and (b) you've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly and egregiously, I've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.
Context: the company is chasing a $100mn y-o-y growth at this point.
- All employees in the US offices get a hefty bonus for the profits they contributed to
- All employees in the India office were to not receive bonuses/increments because we wanted to cut costs (not to forget, Indian salaries are 20% of their US counterparts)
- All employees in the US were to get reimbursements for stylish/modern/gaming chair while working from home($300 a piece)
- All employees in India had to get their $40 chair approved from the manager (request denied in most cases, "unnecessarily too costly", he said)
- No more bonuses for India offices for the next year or so because we spent all the money on the US employees and the managers bonuses
- Indian new hires are getting offered the salary that someone with 5 years exp is already working at in the company
<puts on tin-foil hat>: distribution of bonus/increments seem to have an upper limit. the less you distribute as a manager = the more you have for yourself and your favorite juniors
<anecdote>: ^^ one of the favorites from above actually quit the next day after getting the bonus. it's common to put in your papers right after the increment letter.
edit: formatting