I don’t miss my commute, but working from home has negatively impacted my job happiness, physical health, and mental health. This morning I started working at 9

I don’t miss my commute, but working from home has negatively impacted my job happiness, physical health, and mental health. This morning I started working at 9:15AM. I finally closed my Macbook and turned off the monitor around 8:30PM. I got less done than I wanted. I’m struggling to concentrate and focus on specific tasks. People ping me on my company’s multiple messaging and video conferencing systems throughout the day. People now set up meetings at unreasonable hours. My job is to resolve ambiguity. My job has gotten much harder because communication is more difficult. I’m sure many an engineer who gets assigned specific coding tasks or very focused design problems loves working for home, but for some of us who’s bread and better is resolving complexity, disambiguating problems, etc., it’s an expensive tax.