How has this affected you ? Do you guys think that working from home (at least few days a week) will make your work and overall more efficient or not ?
I have worked from home for a decade now. It's a long story how it happened, but at that time there wasn't many remote workers in our company.
At first I was more efficient because, well, I was working at home and feeling like a total winner!
Then came the period of feeling isolated from coworkers. I started getting anxious. All sorts of questions would come to mind. How was my work being perceived? How was my absence being taken advantage of? What are people in the office saying? Does anyone care?
It took a few years for those feelings to go away.
For people with anxiety and mild depression (that used to be me), working from home is not really a good idea. It really helps your brain fuck with you.
Once I took care of the mental health aspect, working from home became a fairly routine and sometimes (not always) rewarding perk. It helped me do things that I would never do if I had to show up to an office everyday. It helped me gain a lot of knowledge into things completely unrelated to my work through in-depth reading/research because of lack of distractions and presence of other humans. It also cost me quite a few friendships, because, well, who wants to leave a chair and drive somewhere just to shoot the shit with someone?!! LOL
I think offices have been the most overrated aspect of IT for a long time now. They're not needed. Ever. Even video-conferencing is not exactly a must for things to move efficiently. I rarely use my web-cam. The less interaction I have with others, the more productive I seem to be. But that's just my field. Others are probably different.