The problem is that remote workers can easily work two or three jobs from home, but the employers have no way to catch them doing this unless they can install in-home surveillance but the workers know this will ruin their multi-job scam so they resist.

Employers just have to accept that people will work multiple jobs from home. As Nadella has realized, they shouldn't care as long as their make-work projects get done.

The future of remote work is contracting out multiple jobs to other remote workers in India and Viet Nam. US remote workers should be able to manage a dozen remote jobs with subcontracting.