Most companies operate (whether working from office or WFH) as not giving a flying fuck about product quality. There are so many corners cut, stuff added to increase the bottom line with shady crap to the detriment of the end product (and the user experience), blatant lack of passion for the result and so on.
If the product suffers, it's not because they're working for home. Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, or the famous old examples everybody loved to have Avid and Quark,
have made no end of crap releases, or crapped on their priorly good products, while strictly working from an office.
And that's with product oriented companies - corporate and government software is, of course, much much worse.
Still, why optimize for product quality either? It's a bottomless pit. We should optimize for a decent product (that would already be an improvement), and work-life balance. Work is 1/3+ of daily life, and people's time is not something people should be forced to sacrifice (by piling up forced relocation or commuting time, open plan or cublicle farm environments, and lack of day contact with kids, spouses, ability to drop the kids to school or handle some chore over the week, and so on).
If the product suffers, it's not because they're working for home. Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, or the famous old examples everybody loved to have Avid and Quark, have made no end of crap releases, or crapped on their priorly good products, while strictly working from an office.
And that's with product oriented companies - corporate and government software is, of course, much much worse.
Still, why optimize for product quality either? It's a bottomless pit. We should optimize for a decent product (that would already be an improvement), and work-life balance. Work is 1/3+ of daily life, and people's time is not something people should be forced to sacrifice (by piling up forced relocation or commuting time, open plan or cublicle farm environments, and lack of day contact with kids, spouses, ability to drop the kids to school or handle some chore over the week, and so on).