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Won’t answer questions about the costs, benefits
Purdue University wants to pay remote workers to live on campus – but only if they are from outside of Indiana.
It has even created a partnership with a former staffer for the university president who previously pulled his company’s $40 million expansion in the state due to Indiana’s religious freedom law.
The Big Ten university stated in a news release that its “first-of-its-kind program” will “[unite] the collaborative, invigorating energy of a campus with the flexibility of remote work.”
The “Work at Purdue” initiative “invites and incentivizes remote workers to move to Discovery Park District at Purdue.”
The program offers housing, a $1,000 dining credit and up to $4,000 in cash relocation stipends to workers who move from out of state. MakeMy Move, the company that administers the program, puts the total benefit to workers at $9,000, according to a listing on its website .
Purdue spokesperson Tim Doty did not respond to two emails sent in the past month that asked for further information. The College Fix asked how the university would benefit from the Work at Purdue program, the fees charged to enrollees, the motivation behind the initiative and the cost to taxpayers.
MakeMyMove, co-founded by former Angie’s List CEO Bill Oesterle, will run the program. Oesterle led the corporate pressure campaign in 2015 to get Governor Mike Pence to water down the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act law. Oesterle previously worked for current Purdue University president and former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels as his campaign manager. CEO changes tune on whether workers should live in Indiana Though his company now will help convince non-Hoosiers to move to Indiana, he previously canceled a $40 million expansion in Indianapolis due to his opposition to the state’s religious freedom bill . Even though Pence signed an amended […]
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