Your take reminds me of people who don’t like taking coding exams. They spew venom about online coding exams yet coding exams help us exclude people who don’t know how to code. You want us to “just trust you” like an idiot while also paying you $150k a year to code?

If you can’t code, we don’t want to work with you. You don’t want to see your coworkers faces? That’s a bit anti-social and we don’t want to work with you.

Given that most human communication is non-verbal, we do want to see each other, and smiling at each other is great for camaraderie. Your brain releases endorphins when someone smiles at you. But fuck all that because UberJesus hates other people’s faces, LOL.

We found that people who exhibit certain anti-social tendencies also tend to be the types that are less invested in the success of the business, not want to participate in “fun” or team-building activities, and more likely to be working a secret second job.

The people mentioned in OP fit a profile, and that profile hates any policy that would help employers distinguish an over-employed worker from one that isn’t.

But “geez” you literally remind me of someone I fired in 2019. So it’s all good.