[oakfr]

I wouldn't be surprised if a high number of us is now really doing 3-4 hours of real work a day, filling in the rest with stuff that we'd have been ashamed to do in front of our colleagues (or called for) in the pre-covid world.

This is a good thing. The pre-covid world was mostly a circus in that respect.

As long as the 3-4 hours of daily deep, profitable work are still there, we're good.

Edit: this comment does not apply to small startups where your productivity as an engineer is much higher and it (sadly) makes sense to work for 8+ hours a day.