Back when I was the boss, long before covid was a thing, I let people work from home because I liked working from home. One thing I did that I've not seen many

Back when I was the boss, long before covid was a thing, I let people work from home because I liked working from home. One thing I did that I've not seen many other people do, but which really helped make it work, was to get everyone to formalize their working time by announcing their virtual arrival at and departure from work every day. So the first thing everyone would do everyday is send an email to the team with the subject, "I'm in", with a few very brief sentences saying what they were working on and hoping to accomplish that day. When they were done for the day, they would do the same thing with "I'm out" and again a few brief sentences saying what they had actually done. the guideline was that they should spend no more than five minutes, and probably more like one or two, composing these emails. This policy had a dramatically positive effect, including on me. The overhead was negligible but it made it harder to slack off because that would be more immediately visible to the entire team. It also made it clear when one could expect timely responses to emails sent out during the day. And just forcing everyone to actually think about and what they were working on and rendering that into words made it obvious when there were organizational problems and tasks were not being distributed effectively.