The biggest thing with working from home is that you have to actually WORK. For most companies, that means being available and doing “work stuff” during work ho

The biggest thing with working from home is that you have to actually WORK. For most companies, that means being available and doing “work stuff” during work hours, and that’s not just some stupid rule that incompetent management made up. Almost all jobs require coordination with other people, and you need to be available to address clients’ needs when they expect you to (i.e. during business hours). You can’t have meetings or other coordination if everyone is on their own schedule. The only jobs that might not need this are developer jobs where you just need to commit your code at the end of the day. So if your vision of WFH comes from this perspective, you’re in the vast minority of the overall workforce who can operate this way. Too many people think that WFH means you can set your own hours, watch your kids, have the TV on, go to the gym, run errands, etc. If you have a well established track record, then maybe you can do one of those things in a day, once in a while, but people without the right work ethic will fall off the wagon pretty quickly and ruin it for everyone else. Especially in a case like COVID-19, people working from home may be stuck with their kids and other family who are also forced to stay home, making it more difficult to establish good habits.