I work for a small, remote-only company and overall it works well. I probably work 40-55 hours in a given week, and give back 25-50% of my commute time to the

I work for a small, remote-only company and overall it works well. I probably work 40-55 hours in a given week, and give back 25-50% of my commute time to the company, mostly because I'm not a morning person so would rather just open the laptop and get to work. It is much easier to stay productive when I can take short breaks in the comfort of my home, change the laundry, make a healthy lunch, or walk down the street for coffee. My day is done when it's done, there's no hour commute plus a pile of chores waiting for me at home. It's hard to remember who I have or haven't met in person, despite physically seeing them a few times a year; I know these people well and they are friends and colleagues. I've been to their weddings and have had people visit me from out of state just to spend time together. Never knew any of them prior to joining the company. On the other hand, my partner works remotely for a large (5K+) remote-only company, and seems to often have less than 20 hours of actual work to do in a given week. I know several others at BigTech who just need to create the verisimilitude of being online. keeping their Slack bubble green and superficially responding to messages. One conclusion would be that remote doesn't scale. Another would be that the redundancies endemic to large companies mean that in the office, people have to spend a lot of time looking busy, but regardless of where the work happens, they aren't. The remote work experiment is a success. A permanently larger proportion of knowledge workers will continue to do it. Every organization has different circumstances and some won't set things up that way. Doesn't matter what someone with a billion dollars thinks is supposed to apply everyone else.