Doesn't that really depend on what kind of company you are? I can see how it would be hard with a huge company like ibm where someone could probably get by for years without doing anything. But at a smaller company people can tell whether you're working or not.
This seems more like a problem with management only knowing if people are doing their job by noticing their presence instead of measuring their production, which is really the only way remote work can be done successfully at scale, IMO.
> In 2019, Bay Area startups attracted roughly $46 billion in venture capital, more than twice the amount raised that year by the entire Mighty Middle combined.