I work from home since 2012, so almost 12 years. The small company where I work started allowing remote working with me, and then many colleagues followed. Now we are 100% remote with one day a week in office. All my workmates and I know very well that we are far more productive when at home compared to when we are in office. My commit history also confirm this. I will never take in consideration another developer position if not allowed at least 80% of remote working.

I agree, though I have to admit that my kitties yelling at me for pets (one is especially loud) while I'm on the phone is a bit of a nuisance. But I'll take that over the old office I was in where there'd be three conversations competing across space rather than people just walking over to the desk of a coworker and talking at a normal volume. God, I hated that!

My billables jumped by 25% when I switched to fully WFH. I never want to go back.

While employees in the office might kill time messaging friends or flipping through TikTok, remote workers take advantage of being far from the watchful gaze of bosses to chip away at personal to-do lists or to goof off

I could be at home rubbing one, trying to do a push up, or taking a nap in between calls. I'm stuck here pretending to look busy while shit posting or watching Youtube since everything is working. Think I'll play Minecraft after my smoke break. I miss work from home...

you risk becoming almost self employed, working for you and not someone above

I once worked with a colleague within an academic setting for a EU wide project. We were understaffed. She constantly complained about how she works extra hours at home and on weekends. Well, my problem was she wouldn't let me work at work because she used at least 5 hours of the day to trash talk colleagues behind their back (including me when I was on sick leave or, probably, out to pee). Damn I wonder why she had to work that much after working hours.

I have a day job and a night job, and I do surveys for money between work tasks and read books on my phone. My night job I can pretty much do one handed while doing whatever on my phone. I don't care at all.

If people realized just how much overpaid goof off was going on in the business positions between Director of Whatever and CEO and Company President most workers would rip their bosses asunder and wear their heads as hats.