It's a negotiating strategy outlined in "The Art of The Deal"...make a big, bold, over-reaching initial claim or ask (way beyond what you actually want), then "settle" back closer to the actual position you wanted in the first place as a "compromise".
If you work from home, you can use your 1-2 hour time-savings from the lack of a commute to do a 45 minute HIIT workout and you still have extra time left over.
That would be awesome! Future robo-Cameron has to terminate the writers and studio execs that beat the horse to death before T-3, Genisys, and Dark Fate are green-lit!