[quote=spdrun][quote=CDMA ENG]
I work longer hours because the team of people that I supported were people I respected and actually love. What hours I give to the company to get ahead or to support my friends are purely my business and my decision.[/quote]

If it’s your decision, it’s fine. If everyone does it and it establishes a norm that hurts others, that’s not so great. No. New. Normal!

This being said, I often pick up for others that are having issues that keep them from working on a given day.[/quote]

I think you are worrying too much. I don’t think most employers will force their employees to be remote workers only…just like not all employers will force workers back into the office. There will be a mixture of both and varying degree in between so good talent should be able to find an environment that works best with their lifestyle and abilities. That’s the key.

I think the better employers are making changes in the workforce mainly to improve flexibility and using it as one more tool to attract and retain good talent without competing with raw salary/bonus/stock dollars. And there’s plenty of cases where it does not affect productivity. Most companies will offer some hybrid model of both in person and remote option, again of varying degree. My company just makes you pick one so you are accountable where you are, whether it’s fully in person, fully remote, or hybrid (and then you need to give a concrete plan on which days you are in).

Speaking of which. Are you working for a company now? I thought you were BYOB and hated working for a company and had your own business. If you are BYOB, this shouldn’t matter to you since then you make your own rules, to some extent. If you decided to join a company as an employee, it really isn’t as bad as you make it out to be. There’s pros and cons for everything. There’s a lot of things you don’t need to worry about now. And you can always do both too, best of both worlds (or worst of both worlds, depending on how you look at it)…

If you think about it, it’s just making what use to be regular jobs more flexibility that some BYOB people use to say was one of the main virtues of BYOB instead of being an employee for someone else. Now, if you want to take time off during the day for some non-work related things, you no longer have a rigid schedule (not that I ever felt I couldn’t do that before)…