I know some people doing 2-4 hours of work per day, getting 100% as much done as they did in the office, then playing with their kids or cooking or reading or m

I know some people doing 2-4 hours of work per day, getting 100% as much done as they did in the office, then playing with their kids or cooking or reading or making art or just watching TV while they leave work chat open. Many not in tech. Office work generally is full of slack and meaningless butt-in-seat time. There are complaints/observations of this dating back to at least the 1950s (see the wasteful faux-activity pretending-to-be-busy office work described in Revolutionary Road, for instance—it could have been written today, except there'd be more email, and it doesn't read as one bit exaggerated) so it's not like modern office workers are wildly less industrious than their predecessors from The Greatest Generation or the Baby Boomers or whatever. Office work under a modern corporation or other bureaucracy is just largely BS, evidently by nature. So there may be about the same work getting done, but possibly way less "work".