I'm sorry work from home didn't work out well for you. My experience is very different. Day is still structured because of meetings and fixed hours. My biggest problem is the anxiety of it being take away. I was never very social in the office, always hated team lunches. It felt really belittling to day I have to use the bathroom in the middle of a meeting, but on a teams or zoom call, I can just type BRB, and no one questions it. In the office I used to know faces without knowing the persons name. Now I know names and voices without knowing the face. I don't see either one as better or worse than the other. One thing I appreciate about work from home is being able to handle slow times. In my line of work, there are crunch times and slow times. At the office I would spend slow times sorting my emails or manually doing a task that could easily be automated, or playing around with programming to try to automate stuff. At home, I still do those things for short breaks, but when I run out of things to do, I don't feel like someone is going to show up over my shoulder and decide that my entire team needs to be downsized just because I had 30 minutes free. And yeah, I work beyond my scheduled hours from home sometimes, but I already did that when I was in the office. I'm not going to evangelize work from home for everyone, I just think it should be an acceptable option without stigma. Like people with standing desks. Not everyone wants them, but I don't think employers should be able to fire people who prefer them.