A company offers 20 thousand dollars to those who do smart working (but the salary is cut)

In the United States the fintech company Stripe encourages employees to work remotely without moving to the big cities where it is based, as long as they accept 10% less in paychecks

Stripe's headquarters in San Francisco ( photo: Stripe) We got to know him better during the lockdown, and now in the US and elsewhere smart working is becoming the norm for many tech companies. Last in order of time is Stripe, one of the most important companies in the fintech sector specializing in solutions for digital payments, which has announced that it intends to recognize a $ 20,000 bonus to employees who agree, by the end of 2020, to move to the city smaller to work remotely with a 10% salary reduction.

To date Stripe, also present in the Italian market, is a company valued at 36 billion dollars and has 2,800 employees in 16 offices in world-class, including major cities in San Francisco, New York and Seattle, some of the US cities with the highest cost of living. And to incentivize remote work practices, it decided to go down the path of relocating employees to cheaper cities with a wage reduction and concessions and benefits.

Stripe itself had already announced the hiring of 100 engineers who worked remotely, and therefore without having to move to one of the cities where the group's offices are located. The request supported the company's growth during the months of the lockdown, when between March and May it processed over a billion dollars in transactions in the region of Europe, the Middle East and Africa alone, as reported by the Times.