I remember when I first started my career, my boss told me "Don't miss meetings, don't miss deadlines. Otherwise, I don't care when you're here." I thought it

I remember when I first started my career, my boss told me "Don't miss meetings, don't miss deadlines. Otherwise, I don't care when you're here." I thought it sounded great. Spent most of my time out of the office for the first 3 weeks. Quickly felt the downsides and got back in the office for the remainder of my next 2 jobs. Networking alone was more valuable for my career personally than anything that we actually accomplished in the office by being there together. I don't know that the company benefited, but I felt like I did. At the larger company though (business telecom), it was a lot easier for them to secure the network by controlling all of the devices and endpoints in the office, including camera access and building access. Dealing with all those employees on remote devices over a VPN would have been a huge security headache IMO.