That could be the difference between being in shape or not. Or having written a book or not. Even just feeling tired or not.
I don’t understand how people can be against remote working.
A lot of companies seem deeply invested in corporate offices and office complexes. It helps them with expense write-offs, depreciation etc. If you suddenly stop using those facilities, it's a dead asset.<p>In some countries, running employee services like the cafeteria, transport, taxis, facilities management, security etc are usually hived off to family members of the promoter, allowing for invoicing at inflated rates to reduce tax outflow of the main business. If the offices didn't run many found it difficult to hide actual incomes.
Every day I have to go into the office means wasting 4 hours driving to/from an office so that I can call into the same meetings I would be calling into if I hadn’t been forced to waste those 4 hours.<p>Return to the office is easily a 20% pay cut in terms of $/hour comp.
Just doing some quick math, for a relatively well paid dev at $120 per hour with 260 work-days in a year saving about an hour a day that equates to about ~$31k needed to justify going into the office on a purely pecuniary front.