I think “pay” is commonly understood to mean monetary, not adjusted for location, risk, time, or transportation cost, and understood to be stated in terms of total rather than hourly. Saying people are accepting lower pay to work remotely seems like a pretty objective way of describing the decision being made. What you’re describing are the motives, the fact that pay is not the whole picture. I don’t think we need to recast what “pay” means to understand that there’s more to be considered than just that.
> I don’t think we need to recast what “pay” means to understand that there’s more to be considered than just that.
Yes, we do. Because a fair number of people are math / numbers "shy" and don't do the calculations. That favors the employers. Painting "pay" more accurately levels the playing field.
