Or my talk therapist girlfriend, for whom working from home still means having phone or video appointments starting and ending every hour. Though at least she can take a short break if someone no-shows (most of that time is for doing notes).

I suspect most people working from home have some opportunity to take breaks here and there, though. I'm aware of certain professions with invasive monitoring (I've seen nurses that work for pharmaceutical companies report this), but it doesn't seem to be particularly widespread. I'm not familiar with anyone in my personal life who have an expectation of immediate response to superiors (though on the rare case the CEO contacts you, you should make sure to get on that pretty quickly ... but that's why I get email on my phone/watch).

I like to take walks around the blocks during very long conference calls. And for that matter I will walk around my house and advance the laundry or make a cup of coffee or just pace and wave my arms for a shorter and more involving call.

>> expectation of immediate response to superiors

It depends on whether you are working primarily via email/text or live talk/chat/webcam. When my boss calls me on the phone during the day he expects me to answer.

Not being able to take even a 15 minute break and having to report to five different bosses sounds like an outlier occupation in terms of austerity. What if you need to go to the bathroom?

Five bosses? I'm genuinely curious how this works

My guess is that it doesn't work as well as four bosses.

I laughed and upvoted, but you never know. Maybe the utility curve turns a corner.

At least it’s fewer than eight.