It explains the company changing its “remote only” promise to those employees they hired on that basis. They gave it a try and got robbed of 30 months salary.
Fixed that for you.
I do software development too, if opening my laptop was the only metric by which I was measured, damn, that would be pretty sweet! /s
It sounds plausible to me, with the recent trend of some taking 2 jobs because remote enables that behavior. I don't know how widespread this cheating practice is, but I have seen people brag online they are doing it.