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Let's pretend that people actually work when they are in the office.

It's a lot easier to procrastinate in the office, actually, when everybody just assumes you are working just for being there.

At home I actually feel more pressured to show results from what I am doing.

When people want to avoid work, it is not glueing them on an office chair that will change the attitude.

So now people spend their time on their phone or on "HN" or both. Much better.

Are these things a problem? All of this was promised by capitalism.

The problem isn't what the things are, it's what they aren't.

Source?

My guess is either apocrypha, rhetoric, or experience with people who aren’t doing their jobs, which in my experience isn’t most people working from home.

In my decade+ of working from home I’ve personally only encountered one or two people who fit the offered description. Most people do their work, irrespective of daily schedule.