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Ironically I've found it's harder for people to run away in remote, people don't disappear from their desks and you don't have to chase them down. If they don't message back and it's urgent, you call and if they don't pick up a call and haven't marked themselves as such something's up. People are extremely dilligent about making sure they use status' due to the knowledge that people will assume that way.
Yeah I'm way more available when working from home, since I can get my nicotine fix at my desk and I can't do that in the office. I need to get up and walk around to get the blood flowing, in the office I think it would be weird to walk a few laps around the cubicle to do this, so I end up being further from my desk more. At home I'm basically always close enough to hear my computer make a ding when I get a message. And if there's an urgent issues that requires attention off hours... sorry not much I can do to help you when I'm on a bus transiting to and from work.
An office is also a great place to hide away as “busy”; shuffling around, a bit of time at desk, join a meeting and say nothing, coffee, lunch, shuffling, another meeting with low contribution and you’re gone. Doing nothing is just as easy, and less assailable, in an office.
Almost as if there's a reason that C-suite level people are so adamant about returning to office...