Folks on HN talk about resisting the clock all the time without realizing it. They want to work from home because the lack of commute makes for a more relaxing

Folks on HN talk about resisting the clock all the time without realizing it. They want to work from home because the lack of commute makes for a more relaxing morning and evening. Why is it more relaxing? Because we have more time to work with. It’s more flexible. Working from home also offers greater flexibility in other aspects of time. You can do domestic chores when it makes sense and not just in the hours outside office time (which are indirectly dictated by the office schedule). Do you like lots of meetings? As scheduled blocks of time they are direct manifestations of the shared clock. Or do you prefer to have large blocks of unscheduled time that you can organize yourself? Devs often sneer at the idea of being forced to sit at a desk for a fixed and regular set of hours every work day. “Measure my work by my output, not a time sheet”—sound familiar? Knowledge work is less dependent on universal clock time than other industries like manufacturing, retail, transportation, etc. Measuring time is super important for things like how fast a web page loads, or recovering from an outage. But when it comes to developing the business itself, time is more relative. “Time to market” is not a fixed set of hours, but a relative sense of beating competitors. A universal way of measuring time is obviously a useful tool, and has been critical to many advances in human society. But there is a difference between looking at a clock for your own purposes (e.g. timing your runs to measure your fitness), and looking at a clock because you are trying to satisfy someone else’s expectations. Especially when there is a power dynamic, like with employers.