Often it comes down to your boss/manager wanting to get their "moneys worth".

In their minds, they don't pay you for results - but rather for your time. If you complete your tasks fast, and deliver the desired results, in let's say 20 hours instead of 40 - that means you have 20 more hours to do something else. It's the "If you have time to lean, you have time to clean" mantra brought to the white-collar world.

If you work from home, they can't micromanage or monitor your hours as well as in the office. They don't know if you're a very efficient or average worker. Their fear is that you finish your tasks, and then spend time "slacking" at home - doing house chores, watching tv shows, or whatever, on their time.

That was literally the first thing I learned when I entered the workforce. It's always better to do nothing and look like you're doing something, than to do something and look like you're doing nothing.

I don't say this often, but I feel blessed to have a remote boss that doesn't give two shits about what I / we do with our time, as long as we deliver results. But so far he seems like an anomaly.

> glass

The acoustics are also terrible, as are the visual distractions of watching people walk past and peek in every 20 seconds.

Reminds me of working out of a WeWork in South Station Boston. I faced away from the door and kept headphones on.

I worked in a company that had meeting rooms with glass walls.

It was great. You could write on the glass like it was a whiteboard. And the knowledge that everyone else could see you were in a meeting was an incentive to only be in meetings when you had a real reason to be.

Meeting rooms is fine—it has the added benefit of seeing easily if one is empty. Offices would be terrible.