What's most interesting to me is that the work-from-home employees were reportedly not just more productive and happier, but also physically healthier. Although

What's most interesting to me is that the work-from-home employees were reportedly not just more productive and happier, but also physically healthier. Although there could certainly be some uncontrolled variable like crappy fluorescent lighting, poor HVAC, or pathogens in the building, it makes me suspect that there might be a chronic stress component to working in a space owned (in a psychosocial sense, not a legal one) by someone else. Perhaps there would be some way to change office structure or culture to get the benefits in the office building environment and not just at home. In one of Jamie Zawinsky's old "gruntles" (not linked per the infamous referer abuse), he mentions putting camo netting over his cube and that it made people ask to come in. In vague terms, that's the sort of effect I'm thinking of.