Remote work changes the economics of productivity. In an office, you're there for ~8 hours per day. You might as well produce as much value for the company as

Remote work changes the economics of productivity. In an office, you're there for ~8 hours per day. You might as well produce as much value for the company as possible since there isn't much else you can do there. Remotely, there is reason to think about how much effort you're exerting & if the resulting productivity is worth it. Do you want to get a promotion? Do you want to scrape by? Do you want job security? In an office, it's clear which of these paths to go down. But when you're remote, all of a sudden you are able to exercise the trade-off between spending time to produce more for your employer vs using that time for things that benefit you and you only. And it's very possible to produce well above the bar of employability and have more free time for friends, family, entrepreneurship, etc than you could get when you're forced to spend 8 hours on your employer's property.