I thought you just answered that question in the preceding paragraph? :) At my workplace the founder was staunchly anti-remote. Something about discipline and

I thought you just answered that question in the preceding paragraph? :) At my workplace the founder was staunchly anti-remote. Something about discipline and hallway conversations being necessary for creativity. Mostly discipline. It really did take a pandemic to prove to people like him that remote work works. The execs sounded genuinely surprised in their Zoom presentations about engineering still hitting all the targets like nothing happened. Realistically speaking, even before the pandemic deep work could only happen when people got away from the open plan office. Some would come in or leave at odd hours. Others would work late from home and roll into the office closer to lunchtime. Others still hunted for empty conference rooms. Communication is important but it is realistically needed only about 20% of the time.