I mean, I'm expected to put in 8 hours a day, most of which staring at a screen, either way. Only difference being now I get to use the hours spent commuting to do other things.

The argument would be a lot stronger if most office work wasn't perpetually online to begin with.

People spend 95% of the time in the office in front of a screen anyways. Perhaps there is a problem with too much of our lives being spent online, but switching from in office to remote work isn't even enough of a difference in that respect to register.

I think the problem is that there's a lot of people where that 5% non-screen time at work is the difference between a job they like and one that they don't