"This column is called Corner Office, and most people who choose to have offices are usually the bosses. And I’ve been to the offices of billionaire C.E.O.s that have their own private bathroom, beautiful art and couches. But these are all things that you can have in your house. What I love about distributed organizations is every single employee can have a corner office."
Of course, the assumption here is that you live/work somewhere in which you can have a separate, closed-door, home office. This is true for most people who did distributed work pre-Covid (for example, 100% of my fully distributed team of ~25 engineers/PMs/designers has this setup or something close to it) but this may not be true for those who had to adapt quickly in small urban apartments, as is common in NYC or SF, post-Covid. That said, given how software engineers are usually comp'ed and given how much a software career relies on autodidacticism and flow, I think every software engineer should strive to have a serene home office from which to work. It's a good investment in your career and your sanity.