I am one of those that prefers being in the office 100 times more than working from home. I like the psychological aspects of separating the two environments.
To me, working from home all day is not much different than house arrest. I don’t want stressful situations that sometimes arise at work to be blended with the experience of being in my house.
I want my home to be refuge from work, not part of it.
Exactly how I thought of it. Work is work, home is home, and keep them separate. I saw coworkers who, by working from home, ended up never being free of the workplace.
Fortunately my job included daily hands-on aspects, so working from home was never really an option for me. Even if I could have taken care of something from my home computer on a day off, I preferred to make the 20-minute trip to the office.
I’m coming up on three years retired, so it’s all irrelevant now.
‘I want my home to be refuge from work, not part of it.’
that’s a good point; I think it can be countered only by the prospect of not having to commute so much to a physical location, with all the attendant dificulties; weather, traffic, noise...all the stuff that makes going to work such drudgery...
the obvious solution, and something I would do if I had it to do over, would be to live within walking or a short cycling distance of the office...