Folks can at least multi task remotely and do the real work.

The longest meetings I've ever been in were while working remote. Major sev 1 outage bridges with 200+ attendees where it takes 6+ hours (My longest was 27 hours, and that was after demanding to my boss I finally take a break to get some sleep, and the problem still wasn't resolved for another two hours. Beat my previous longest Sev 1 by 3 hours). to get the right people to join / figure out what's going on / get someone's attention long enough to work on your problems instead of other departments? So fun. /s