Before I start my rant, my position is that the ideal is some days where everyone agrees to attend in person, optionally. I am aware that this also has its down

Before I start my rant, my position is that the ideal is some days where everyone agrees to attend in person, optionally. I am aware that this also has its downsides. Not looking for comments on that. Here's my experience as someone who has had both, and much prefers 100% work from home: I used to loathe going to work in the morning. Sometimes I sleep 11pm, 12am, and having to wake up 7:30am at the latest to groom myself, get dressed, make breakfast, so that around 8-8:30am I can hop on to a crowded, unreliable, unhygienic Subway train worrying about making it to work on time, every week day is not a good life experience. After I started WFH due to the pandemic, I realized work in person was not more productive. I remember when I first started working in an office, how many distractions there were. So much chatting. Working on crappy equipment, not suited to my needs. The (open) office was noisy, if I really needed to focus, that only happened after the shift to laptops and when there was an empty area in the office I could fuck off to, usually the cafe area. Listening to music? Only on headphones, and people might judge you for that (it was a 50+ year old company). Or interrupt you, forcing you to take headphones off. Taking a break? People might think you're lazy or disengaged. My coworker once proposed a nap room (like Google), and the CEO was visibly irritated. I had another co-worker, who saw me reformatting and commenting my code accuse me of slacking off. My manager chastised me for studying Neural Networks on work time (I had no other work to do). Perhaps most egregious of all, in this 50+ year old company, it was considered unsporting to leave at 6pm. I also got called out by that same boss for doing that consistently: "don't you feel sorry for your teammates who are working late?", or "the director walked in here at 7pm and saw the department empty... 'nice to see you guys have solved all the company's problems', he said (ironically)". Long live work from home.