For devs, it's hard to debate this point. It's even hard to explain to others what the value of the flow state is, where you're just one with the code and you f

For devs, it's hard to debate this point. It's even hard to explain to others what the value of the flow state is, where you're just one with the code and you feel like you're making progress. You really need to not be interrupted, and you need comforts like your own chair, food, and clothes. I'm mostly coding these days so 100% WFH suits me just fine. Yesterday I talked to some people I used to face, ie they were taking the phone at another business years ago when I was trading with them. They are all against working from home, having continued to go to the office during the lockdowns. The point they made was that some things really benefit from being interruptible. Some things even benefit from not being recorded. Immediacy really matters for certain things like gauging who you should approach with some deal. What also matters is being able to weigh the mood. A lot of what we call political decisions depend on this kind of weighing of what the team wants to do, and is hard through zoom. Finally there's the problem of juniors. In finance you'd learn stuff when there was a quiet moment and someone more experienced seemed like they had a second to explain something to you. Unscheduled but valuable training. These folks basically took the opposite view of what you seem to have, and decided that people who like WFH are basically not productive and are just phoning it in, knowing that it has gotten harder to hire people willing to be in the office all day. It's kinda interesting the take that people on opposite ends of the spectrum have of each others motivations.