Well, first and foremost my job is about 70% hands-on as an electronics engineer. I can and do sometimes do this work from home, but I have better equipment at

Well, first and foremost my job is about 70% hands-on as an electronics engineer. I can and do sometimes do this work from home, but I have better equipment at the office. That's really not what you're asking, though. When I don't need to be at the office, I can really only tolerate a few days at a time. I need the structured time of being in a physical place with clear purpose and expectations. My home office is absolutely not that. I actually and truly do real work through my entire day. It's all productive time, maybe like 30 minutes of downtime a day for smoke breaks or dicking around on my phone. I know, I'm a freak. But when working from home I usually get 2-4 hours of real work done. On a personal level, I need to feel productive, be it at work on on my hobbies. WFH days usually leave me feeling dissatisfied and restless. And not to mention my spouse or pets offering distractions and interruptions all day. Office is nice because we have an extremely small team: 6 total are local, and only two to three are usually in the office at the same time as me. It's quiet, I have few distractions, and I can simply get work done. I suspect I'd feel exactly the same if I just rented a private office for myself. I just need that psychological context switch of being in the place that work happens