What's interesting to me about the comments here, is how much autonomy everyone seems to have about their work time.

I'm working 100% remote due to Covid, coming from a loosely enforced "only work remote if you need to be home for a plumber / cable install / snow day" policy.

We have a (loosely enforced) "start at 8pm" mandate, and mandatory daily calls at 9am and 3pm to report our "challenges".

Slack messages flow freely at all hours, with a policy that emails and Slack messages always be responded to within an hour. The culture is such that any Slack message not responded to promptly (even during lunch hours) is, at the very least, cause for concern. At no point would "taking 2 hours at lunch to run errands" be acceptable without prior approval, even if we routinely worked past 6pm (as I often do).

I expected this to be a bit extreme, but I'm beginning to wonder just how extreme is this culture right now in previously "non-remote" jobs?