[harveynick]

Good for them, and good for everyone else here who's happy about the switch to remote working. That said: I think I'd almost rather quit than "work from home" indefinitely.

For me I'm not "working from home", I'm "living at the office". I deeply resent that my work has taken over a part of my home. For the record: I love my job. I also really miss working from the same physical space as my colleagues. Meetings which I used to enjoy are now awkward and draining. Lastly: I even miss my commute home in the evening (not so much my morning commute, to be fair). It used to give my 30 minutes in which to decompress and switch my brain out of work mode.

[evocatus]

Fully agreed. I didn't endure over a decade of an abusive household and even a few months of homelessness just so my employer could close down its offices and forcibly relocate them into my living room.

I was absolutely fucking livid. Can't a man just be left alone in his own home any more?

It seems that I am in the minority here.

[greedo]

At least you had a job that allowed you to WFH. Imagine being in the restaurant biz where you were just shut down...

[lowbloodsugar]

I hope we can find a solution where people can choose to work at an office or from home. I expect that the compromises necessary will be difficult. For some, like yourself, meetings were a source of pleasure and are now draining. For others, meetings were a place for dominating (usually male) colleagues to enact competence dramas, often at the expense of more competent but quieter ones. I know some people who already head to the office, but prefer that the meetings are still virtual. For many people getting to the office really is just about having a physical space to work outside the home. So there are a lot of factors. In the end, the market will decide.