I can sort of understand the scepticism, but it's relatively easy to see whether someone is working or not. Especially if you have tools like git, and any tool

I can sort of understand the scepticism, but it's relatively easy to see whether someone is working or not. Especially if you have tools like git, and any tool that tracks tasks/progress etc. Also, people can work less and just exist more, albeit physically closer to you. In the end, you'll only be able to measure the amount of work they've done similarly in both cases: remote or regular. It'll be a combination of seeing the progress, understanding the tasks and gauging whether they've been done in reasonable time, etc. You can do all of this in the case of a remote worker. Speaking for myself, I am vastly more productive in a remote, quiet place (home). Easily 5x more productive, or perhaps even more. I cannot understand people working mentally demanding jobs and being interrupted all the time.