> 2. Have a place where you can work, distraction free.
From working remotely for the last year, I've found that basically any table is a fine remote work spot for me. Kitchen table, Starbucks, whatever. I have learned that I don't get appreciably distracted by ambience or even really by light conversation[1] (unless doing something particularly out-of-the-ordinary in terms of difficulty, in which case it's lock-the-doors time); if I did have concentration issues, don't you--y'know--think that I wouldn't do the things that triggered them. Because I'm an adult and I'm competent? The assumption that people aren't is why, to me, these edicts read as kind of wacky.
[1] - Hell, I'm getting a coworking space because I find that that ambience and that light social friction makes me better at what I do. =)
#3 then becomes the worst kind of rule, one that is no only under unanticipated circumstances which are not going to be covered by rules, by definition.
1. Be able to communicate with your team.
2. Have a place where you can work, distraction free.
3. Get approval from your team lead. (This one barely counts, since the answer would never be no.)