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Working from home is bad. Before you went to work then left and that was it. Now you're always at work. You can never leave. You burn more of your electricity, eat more food, and use more heat. You don't get paid any more.

>London (CNN Business)Many people are discovering they enjoy working from home. Should they pay higher taxes if they decide to stay away from the office even after the pandemic?

>The idea was floated this week by a research team at Deutsche Bank (DB). It proposed a tax on remote workers once the coronavirus is brought under control to support the economic recovery and subsidize the wages of people in low-paid jobs who can't choose their place of work.

>"The sudden shift to [work from home] means that, for the first time in history, a big chunk of people have disconnected themselves from the face-to-face world yet are still leading a full economic life," thematic research analyst Luke Templeman said in a new report. "That means remote workers are contributing less to the infrastructure of the economy whilst still receiving its benefits."

Get ready to pay for the privilege of wage slaving at home.