"WFH is a trick to make employees work longer" -- the term for this is "Living at Work" rather than "Working from Home". Some days work gets WAY more time than

"WFH is a trick to make employees work longer" -- the term for this is "Living at Work" rather than "Working from Home". Some days work gets WAY more time than 8 hours, some days it gets WAY less time. Programming is a lot like art work. I've watched my wife (an artist) spend hours mixing paint, stretching canvas, washing brushes ... and have not a stroke of paint on the canvas. Then the next day she spends 12 hours doing nothing but painting. Programmers also have to do "setup" time work which does not result in code and appears unproductive. When working from home it appears that you're not working because bad managers only count lines of code. In the office environment setup work still looks like work because you are "at your desk". Learn to live with the fact that you appear to be slacking when working remote. Also be aware that NOBODY does more that 70% of their total possible output on a continuous basis. NOBODY. Even bricklayers, where you can count the bricks laid, take time for lunch, use their cell phone, drive to the hardware store, mix cement, and everything but lay bricks.