cal state employees were encouraged to work at home. Circa 1990s Of course that would save gas, and lighten the freeway load some days.
But it required management approval. I was chief of training for a mid-sized department. When my employees didn’t need to be in class they could do their research on designing classes, make calls, write memos and lesson plans from home.
Then we got a director who couldn’t understand how managers could measure results and not have to watch people work. That was the end of work at home.
Then the state went to 9-80; work 9 days 80 hours get a monday or friday off every other week, not bad Freeway traffic good on Mon and Fri in Sacramento where we had 200,000 state employees.
Some jobs need people there some don’t. the key is to figure out which ones and judge people by their completed work.
That is a reasonable conclusion, so it will never stand. :)