Also, I don’t think you’re going to have much of a problem socializing if you’re going around humblebragging about how you’ve optimized your work and personal time for peak employee performance.
I am not humblebragging about optimization. I have 24 hours in a day. They are generally all spoken for, meaning that for something to go in, something else must go out.
Don't you, like, have to work during those hours regardless of your environment? Even working for the government, they kind of expect that.
Being productive is as much a waste of my time as interacting with coworkers.
I basically have every day mostly free because I'm just productive Enough and work remote. I am leaving an insane amount of (for-employer) productivity on the table and instead giving myself that productivity.
Adding new people requires removing other people or reducing my productivity to make more time available.