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who pays employees commute time? is this an american thing?


What's interesting is that we can get paid for travel to other customer sites of our employers when using personal vehicles (up to $.535/mile per IRS guidelines[0]), but not to go to our actual workplaces.

[0]https://www.irs.gov/uac/2017-standard-mileage-rates-for-busi...


If you have a home office and commute to a client site you can claim it as a deduction at tax time. Outside of that I do know of some employers who do reimburse mileage as long as it is filed and more than 20 miles but that is rare.


Employees eat commute time, at least in most white collar salary positions in the US.




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