Sounds pretty rational to me for both of you. The important thing is whether someone can deliver the goods, not how long it took them or where they were sitting

Sounds pretty rational to me for both of you. The important thing is whether someone can deliver the goods, not how long it took them or where they were sitting at the time. Most of my critical design work is done in the shower or laying flat on my back looking at the ceiling. Having the time to do deep consideration and reflection is a critical part of quality design work. Sitting and typing furiously in a loud open work environment next to sales guys screaming into their phones, secretaries flirting with management, and air conditioning blasting away may look more impressive, but never produces quality work.