Corporations do everything in their power, including illegal things to maximize profits. Why can't an individual do what's best for them?

If you’re more concerned with how long a software engineer sits in front of a computer, opposed to the work they actually get done, you’ve already lost.

Edit: if you’re going to downvote me that’s fine, but please explain why “number of hours spent at computer” is at all a useful metric. It’s a genuine question; I’m not being facetious. I’ll get nothing done all day then wake up in the middle of the night with the solution to a problem. The amount of time I spend coding doesn’t really correlate with business value.

I really don’t understand this. If the company isn’t getting the productivity they expect, they should deal with that. If they can’t tell, what difference does it make?

The reason I've asked you all here today is because my boss told me to do it. So here we are.

Yes. Because they're an edge case and most of us probably have good enough common sense not to punish everyone because a few people are assholes.

If you are an employer and someone manages to stay employed under your leadership while having multiple jobs, that's on you.

Turns out you can do that in an office too