My latest Thorns & Thistles column is up at TGC today, in which I consider whether remote workers are ethically obligated to put in a 40-hour week if they can meet their employer’s expectations in fewer hours:

If the workweek can legitimately be shortened to 40 hours, obviously it can legitimately be shortened again—at least for those able to deliver a valuable work product to a willing employer in fewer hours. In other words, if we fuddy-duddies condemn today’s whippersnappers for not living up to the standards we were taught, what’s to stop the 19th-century fuddy-duddies from rising up and condemning us as whippersnappers for failing to live up to the even stricter standards they were taught?

No need to spend 40 hours composing your reply, but let me know what you think!