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I wouldn't assume the in office workers get more done because they go to the office, correlation != causation.

It seems just as likely to me that the most dedicated, hard working employees are the ones willing to commute in to the office in the first place, and they would get more work done than others regardless of where they work.

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Good point. I'm curious if there's a relationship between those who work-to-live/live-to-work and work remote/work in office, respectively.

That's a good question to an angle I hadn't considered. The in-office people are strict 8 to 5ers and none of us work from home that often - just the random voluntary thing when something is interesting. The remote workers work more hours to be certain. Most voluntarily with some of the tech people being roped in on weekends. The core in-office engineers have spent years insisting on strong work-life balance that sadly has not propagated to other teams as much.

Maybe in that case but not necessarily.

It might just be their home isn't so nice. Ages before covid I worked at a company that had an office but was mostly remote.

There was a guy who was going to the office because his wife was unemployed and they lived next to his mother in law, so he wanted some calm.

I'd go because the heating at home sucked so on cold days it was better to be in the office :D

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