My friends in GTO received a survey that is due on July 15. The survey asks which of the 2 options is preferred: 5 days/week WFO , or 3 days WFO + 2 days WFH. This is for "taxation" purposes apparently. Not sure how. I thought it matters if employee lives out of state. Employee can change his option every month though.
Gut feeling says this could be similar to what happened with Vaccination status.
Will this be an issue if you reside in Charlotte and do a WFH friday in Florida or South Carolina ? I dont think it should be too much of an issue..
Has nothing to do with tax codes. Most work in the same state they office in, the only ones that don’t already had that setup before COVID.
The “survey” is so the high ups can say SEE WE ARE LISTENING. WE ARE ALLOWING HYBRID.
How about add the option full WFH and not ever going into the office.
Sell the buildings. Forget the Dollar Store “remodels” at the campus.
Not everyone has a permanent desk.
Just don’t answer it until your manager asks. Then give them the ringer, using the ol mighty IRS as an excuse.
Survey says "to ensure we apply proper payroll taxes for your work location". Would the survey matter if we live and work in the same state and have permanent desks? It's not like somebody else is using the desk when employee is Wfh.
If nobody worked in the office, the tax status of building expenses might change, separate from the issue of which territory the employees earn their income in.
It also stayed that you log lunch breaks and not work after your intended shift -- seemed like an oddly worded, mass survey that was slovenly created to cover all 50 states under California's tight restrictions.
It's pretty simple...they are making this "hybrid" approach to tech in the way that BofA usually does things...AZZBACKWARDS...
They are making it very uncomfortable for employees who WFH to get you in the office.
They can terminate you (debatable at the moment) so they don't pay severance and get a cheap obedient employee... either locally but more often than not from that one country in Asia for the following:
This is the worst way to do hybrid... it's not for tax purposes...wtf are you going to go for 2 days a week that would impact the tax code??
This is just a reminder that they don't like to bend and will make it was bad as possible for you until they get their way back.
That said, no one cares anymore and the door is wide open and folks are walking out of this sinking ship...this is the next well Fargo.
Not sure if it's all states, but am based in NC and since 2010, I've had to track my business trips to NYC on a Deloitte (accounting firm) online calendar to state how many days in NY were "work" or "vacation". They pull my data from Concur and send me a link to complete for each trip.
About 5 years ago, an NC colleague who went to NY more often than me was sent a tax bill from NY State on her full year earnings. (she was not happy and stopped going.)
The way state and federal taxes are done needs to be simplified to support remote work. Vote people.
I question the stated reason for the attestation because this was never an issue/questioned from March 2020 to March 2022.
For anyone that was part of MyWork previously, did you have attest to where you were working from previously and how often?
There are a few gotchas in that survey that they can use to fire someone. It will be like vax status.
Living out of state can be an issue due to state taxes. I believe it is based on the number of days you work in the non-residence state. For example, I live in Texas. If I travel and work in our NJ office for 10 or more days, I have to pay NJ state income tax.
Maybe not having you in an office space for two of five days does affect how they deal with office expenses? No idea and I don't know why it would be such a big deal to answer the survey. Living out of state isn't an issue but living out of country would be. To be fair with our employer, corporate tax code is seriously convoluted.