Dutch civil servants now get $2 a day to cover coffee and toilet paper while ...
(WorldNews Netherlands)

Getty Images Everyone should get 2 euros ($2.36) extra per day to cover working-from-home expenses like coffee, toilet paper, and energy bills, according to research from Dutch finance institution NIBUD. Trade unions in the country have lobbied for the change, and civil servants now get an extra 363 euros ($428) a year for working from home. NIBUD assumed the average person has six hot drinks a day at work for its calculation, and factored in `depreciation` of desks and chairs. Remote working means bills are higher than...