Comment Re:No one wants to waste money to justify real est (Score 3) 64
I've been working remotely for years, well before the pandemic. It definitely makes me more productive.
Yeah, I'll admit it, sometimes I might be distracted during a meeting, or even spend "work time" on personal stuff. But you know what? Hell, _this morning_ I was playing Elite Dangerous on my VR headset, while waiting for a load test to finish. But that's balanced by the fact that I'm also more willing to work in the evenings or even on the weekends, depending on the circumstance. When I worked at a physical office, I was desperate to go home at 5. I was exhausted from sitting, exhausted from being around people, and I was starving. And once I was home, that was it--I was absolutely not going to touch anything related to work.
But while working from home, I'm so much more willing to work outside normal business hours. If I didn't make as much progress on my work task as I'd like that day, why not jump back on it after I eat dinner, when I'm rested again? Or how about working on something for an hour or two on a weekend? Not a big deal to just walk into my home office and take care of something.