Programmers are most likely to work from home
There is a dirty secret that nobody talks about and the real reason that companies want programmers in the office.<p>Companies want their top performers in the office so they can serve as trainers&#x2F;mentors&#x2F;teachers to the new college kids and the incompetent older people they hire.<p>I think this is the real reason companies crack down on working from home.  It&#x27;s infuriating as a top performer - I just want to get my assigned work done and leave it at that.  I don&#x27;t want to teach all your shitty college grads how to actually code.<p>edit: I&#x27;m not against mentoring people and helping build teamwork, knowledge sharing, etc.  I&#x27;m just saying that an all out ban on WFH makes me feel like I am sitting in an open office all day doing other people&#x27;s assigned work.<p>I actually am very social and enjoy teaching and helping people.  I just wish it wasn&#x27;t one extreme or the other - I can still mentor&#x2F;knowledge share with tools like WebEx.<p>edit2: I am a contractor who was recently banned from WFH.  We used to have a very lax WFH policy and it was great.  Now I&#x27;m banned from WFH completely.  The article was discussing the merits of WFH policies, which I am commenting on.