I've worked from home for a year but now I'm back at an office again. Working from home seems very good for concentration, but I missed discussions with other p

I've worked from home for a year but now I'm back at an office again. Working from home seems very good for concentration, but I missed discussions with other people. It felt like after some time I would run out of energy to do it. This might be different if one was "doing his own thing" and be very motivated, but I think the ideal for me would be working from home (or somewhere else than the office, as I now have kids at home) for a couple of days a week, and then be at the office for the rest of the week. I think to make telecommuting really work, one would need to get a good understanding of the intangibles involved. An antipattern of telecommuting would be spending more time in meetings during the days in the office, to "catch up", communicate or whatever. Rather, one would need to somehow make the people working from home feel like they are socially part of the working environment. Maybe having some kind of non-meeting social settings during office days would work. Perhaps a long lunch or dinner or something?