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>Lobby turnstiles click louder these days, with corporate chiefs extending mandatory office schedules and federal administrators tightening attendance rules. But according to new research in the Flex Index, the reality feels quieter. One reason is that people show up just long enough to appease the scanner, then vanish back to environments that let them think. Required in-office time from employer mandates climbed 13 percent between 2024’s second quarter and this year’s, from 2.49 to 2.82 days per week. Yet physical attendance stayed nearly flat, inching up 1 percentage point over that time. Stanford economist Nick Bloom summarizes the pattern in six deflating words: “Attendance is flat as a pancake.” Rules multiplied; compliance did not. The data expose a mismatch between what leaders decree and what professionals accept.

Archive: https://archive.today/kJc2f From the post: >>Lobby turnstiles click louder these days, with corporate chiefs extending mandatory office schedules and federal administrators tightening attendance rules. But according to new research in the Flex Index, the reality feels quieter. One reason is that people show up just long enough to appease the scanner, then vanish back to environments that let them think. Required in-office time from employer mandates climbed 13 percent between 2024’s second quarter and this year’s, from 2.49 to 2.82 days per week. Yet physical attendance stayed nearly flat, inching up 1 percentage point over that time. Stanford economist Nick Bloom summarizes the pattern in six deflating words: “Attendance is flat as a pancake.” Rules multiplied; compliance did not. The data expose a mismatch between what leaders decree and what professionals accept.
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I used to work in-office 5 days a week. I had been looking for remote work but most companies were still extremely against it until covid hit. Then I was still considered "critical staff" and still had to go in on occasion when I needed to touch hardware.

I went from being able to get fuck-all done in a day to getting a week or more work done in a day. I no longer had some moron come bug me in my office for a hour or two just because they wanted to BS.

I think I went from getting maybe around a hour (sometimes two) worth of work in a day to getting a solid 6 hours every day. Not only that, because I was not interrupted every hour my output may as well have been 30+ hours for that single 6 hour day.

As it stands now. I get things done by the deadline (usually long before). I am available as needed during "typical hours" and on-call on a rotation. I don't get yelled at about getting things done and I don't have people randomly wasting 10+ hours of my time per week because they just want to "bs" (forced socialization).

I also don't waste a minimum of 5-10 hours PER WEEK driving to and from work. I don't have to pay for nearly as much fuel, I don't have as much maintenance on my vehicle, etc...

If you can work remotely and you have the right mindset for it, it is the way to go. Some jobs simply cannot be remote, some people can't work remote even if the job can be done remote. It has to fit in both cases.

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One contract I was on: Arrive at 9, walk around the office and check on all 30 devs. Any tech issues, server issues, no? Sit at my desk till 10:30 reading the webs. Go to bar that served real lunch (steak house) get there at 11. Eat lunch. Remote into office from bar. Sit there till 5pm drinking tea (yes even when I drank I had principles) Close notebook at 5, start drinking. 5 days a week.

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Don’t get me started on smoke breaks that’s such a fucking time waster. Water cooler talk and coffe breaks also. I don’t smoke or drink coffee. I asked another boss: can I get 10min personal time ever 2 hours all day? What no way why? Well all the stink fucks that smoke get this. Why can’t I?