I think one detail that is not covered often in pro/against in-office or remote work is nature of work has changed quite a bit for typical IT worker. It is vast

I think one detail that is not covered often in pro/against in-office or remote work is nature of work has changed quite a bit for typical IT worker. It is vastly more standardized and in-person discussions are not more insightful than webex/zoom calls. All this seems to have happened over last decade so it is not a pandemic thing. In my case a lot of good technical work I have seen/done during 2005-2015 is now replaced with commercial/OSS assembly which requires a lot less design/architecture work. Now for businesses it maybe absolutely delightful or reasonable change. But for me this new model where every little thing is broken into 50 JIRA tickets, office now seems extraneous. So WFH saves me few hours per day, help me take care of my unwell kid and avoid general dreariness of office environment. All good things that I remember from past about office like great discussions, watercooler talks, discussions with managers about upcoming projects and so on does not happen nowadays. Work flows through project management tools. By the time it reaches me interesting parts are taken care of and all that is left if marking JIRA complete and filling timesheets against it.