YOUR full of BS friend ...
My coworkers and I have defnintely generated a lot more work since the “Work from Home” stuff started.
This is because the idea of “Work from Home” has turned into “they are available 24/5 or 6”.
With my customers around the world, my 6am is Euorpe’s noon (or 11am with Day Light Savings) and I’m on the computer at 6am. Then I have my customers in Australia which leads to meetings and training at 7pm to 8pm or so.
So our time at work has expanded quite a lot ... but it is not really a big deal when I don’t have to spend 3 to 3 1/2 hours in the car back and forth to the office. In fact our company downsized considerably in late 2021 to a small office for client meetings and housing for our servers.
If your job is not on the manufacturing line or in-person service having your office workers work from home is ideal.
Plus we are “saving the planet” by not burning all that “fossil fuel” /s.
This is because the idea of “Work from Home” has turned into “they are available 24/5 or 6”."
Concur with your assessment. I teleworked for 15 years. For the last ten years I supervised a team that lived in 11 different time zones.
I told my people that I did not care what their hours were, but I wanted success. I did not track hours but I know for a fact that the work load for most of us varied from 30 to 60 hours a week depending upon the task at hand. I never got a request for overtime pay. We used to change the times of our weekly meeting so everyone got the fun of a 2AM or 11PM meeting.
I used to tell people that under telework the commute to work was less than 30 seconds, but you never leave the office.