I worked for a very good company which let me work from home when my first child was born (I tried to resign, they said - wouldn't you prefer to work part time

I worked for a very good company which let me work from home when my first child was born (I tried to resign, they said - wouldn't you prefer to work part time from home). The only problem I had was that the whole watercooler thing was real, and you tended not to find out about the interesting little projects or chip in with bits of insight. After 3 years, I ended up resigning and going freelance because they were paying me quite a lot of money, but I didn't really feel that I was contributing. Yes, I know - middle-class first world problems.