The gas thing I think is an interesting example in particular, since most jobs don't actually pay you for travel time and expenses. But they want you to come into work physically anyways, even when there's not really a point to it, not even survellience to make sure you're doing the job (because they were too lazy to do that anyways). It's a degree of control over your time that they're not even actually paying for, but they still feel entitled to.

"Work from home has been such a blessing. For gas, and for everything… I almost get survivor’s guilt because I came out of Covid in so much better of a situation than most people. I actually still get done what my bosses expect, but I have so much more time to simply fuck off. Mostly reading theory, exercising, making food for when my room mates come home, and posting here."

Reading theory AND posting on company time? There goes my hero...

Seriously though, the thing that concerns me about more jobs looking to move more permanently to distanced working is the increasing interest in surveillance stuff used by business to basically spy on their employees and see when they're working, what they doing, how long they're doing it for, etc. It wouldn't surprise me if some company has already started making employees work with their web cam on to watch them while they work. I feel like if the market became big enough, products like Alexa or Ring cameras might start branching into employee home surveillance and leave us all in a never ending panopticon nightmare.

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/11/portugal-remote-working-laws-bosses-right-to-disconnect-covid