Some of this depends on how clean a work/life boundary you had before the pandemic. If like me, you work in a job where you are on-call, frequently checking in

Some of this depends on how clean a work/life boundary you had before the pandemic. If like me, you work in a job where you are on-call, frequently checking in morning/night/weekends, taking out-of-hours calls with other regions, etc.. then the line was long ago blurred. So I was already doing lots of “extra” semi-involuntary time from home, why bother with the ceremony of the commute in the middle of the elongated work day? During the pandemic companies really started to abuse this.. my wife & I started having more regular team meetings at early hours that would never have happened in-office. If they want us back in the office, then the day will need to shrink again. Lastly, in addition to losing the extra time companies have gotten from us - I’ve noticed that another counterintuitive office aspect is all the gossip. Management thinks that we need the serendipity of the “water cooler chats” and informal networks coming up with the next big idea. Little of that happens in reality in most orgs. What does happen though is lots of gossip about who is on the way up/down, in/out. People are a lot more candid IRL than on electronic, likely recorded, means.. and in some cases thats not a good thing.