Ten years of full time remote working and I wouldn't work any other way now. As others have already said, it means I can get on and do useful work without all the pointless, irritating and distracting rubbish that goes with office life, especially open plan office life. Colleagues are much easier and pleasanter to deal with on the end of a wire. You don't have to put up with the reek of cheap aftershave or whatever the bod 5 cubicles over is having for lunch. Nor do my colleagues have to put up with *my* foibles. Office life? You can keep it thank you very much.

As for meetings? Doesn't matter if they're dial in jobs or huddle in a room jobs, 9 out of 10, 99 out of 100, meetings are a complete waste of time. That useful 10th or 100th meeting is the one called by one of your peers to thrash out a single problem, the remainder are an excuse for a "manager" to practice her or his "leet" powerpoint skills and drone on about, "vision" and "values" or any of the three dozen buzzwords they've dreamt up to persuade themselves they're worth the money they're being paid; that or a broadcast about which particular set of deck chairs they're going to be rearranging this week.

Hmm, that was a bit of a rant. Sorry 'about that.