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It sounds like in your opinion “no open plan office” is the sole value of working remote? As I misunderstanding your comment? My office does not have open plan

• mlthoughts2018 8y ago
  That has definitely been my experience from a worker’s point of view. People assessing costs, etc., might have other opinions. The second-biggest benefit is not spending time on a commute. And if you have child care needs or other family arrangements to tend to, the flexibility offered being at home is a benefit. But by far the biggest benefit is that it lets you get away from working in open-plan offices. At one past employer that had a mix of on-site and remote workers, the company had an amazing policy of letting on-site employees work from home as often as they wanted, no questions asked. During one especially difficult design and implementation phase for a certain project, I worked from home for three weeks straight, because otherwise it was literally impossible to get the work done with noise distractions and lack of private space to think and tinker while at the office. Personally, I like working on-site (in private offices) most of all, but the downsides of open-plan arrangements are so severe that I’d practically use any other type of working arrangement, even being fully remote, if it allowed me to avoid an open-plan office.