> This suggests a potentially disturbing trend -- companies or managers that will start implicitly punishing employees for working remotely. > My guess is that

> This suggests a potentially disturbing trend -- companies or managers that will start implicitly punishing employees for working remotely. > My guess is that even at companies that officially support partial remote time employees will start to feel some pressure for taking advantage of it. I'm sure it's not the same in all sectors, but in the govt realm I was feeling this before the pandemic, with the pandemic flipping it completely (for now, at least). We have a long approval chain to get authorization to work remotely, with an explicit time code to go with it. I felt almost guilty requesting up to 2 days a week remotely and almost never took more than 1. Then the pandemic hit and management discovered that a lot of people didn't need to sit in a cubicle 5 days a week to get their jobs done. There's even rumblings from higher up the chain to emphasize getting work done where it's most efficient; hopefully that translates to a better attitude towards working remotely.