Great piece.

I can't understand all the ongoing bollocks from twatty CEOs or other corporate tools (especially inept middle managers) who think working in the office is somehow a sacred duty. What ought to matter is simply this: Is the work, done, and is it done excellently? If so, who gives an airborne fornication whether it was done in the office, at home, or on the back of an oliphant in the middle of the siege of Minas Tirith?

Yes, some jobs can't be done at home (building buildings, fixing roads, etc), but for those that can, surely we ought to be minimising damage to the environment caused by commuting vehicles, reclaiming wasted journey time, getting more sleep so we can function better, and actually getting work done more efficiently without the interminable interruptions of office politics?

I think the real agenda behind all this nonsense is rich landlords who now have properties in city centres that they can't rent anymore to companies, as the work from home genie is now out of the bottle. And thank God it is. I've been going on and on about how important it is for years, long before the pandemic.

Ultimately, I imagine for most jobs there will now be a mixture of home working and office working, negotiated by the worker, who frankly now holds the winning hand. If inflexible managers demand 100 percent office attendance, they can always quit and find a more reasonable boss.

Rant over.