"A fairly simple adjustment"? I've been in therapy for exactly this for a year. For me, this shit has been tough.

Not saying your experience isn't valid, but would you please stop generalising?

Well, my experience has been that having time to switch into "work mode" did help my productivity. But hey, maybe I was just delusional all along.

I've worked from home for about 15 years. I have some friends that work from home. My brother does too.

The answer to this really depends upon the person. I've worked from home since I graduated from college, and initially I would eat, sleep, work, and play games all in the same room, because I had roommates. And I was fine with it.

Some people can't do that. Some people need a dedicated workspace. Some people need to get dressed. My brother works from home, and he still wears a tie everyday. Because that's what he needs to do to get into "work mode".

I'm not saying any of this will work for you. But just wanted to let you know that while this is a thing for some people, you still might be able to get that feeling when you work from home.

My commute (used to be) a 20-minute-long walk, and I did enjoy it as well.

But that's just, like, your opinion. How can you be so sure WFH isn't going to be just a fad?

Do you really think that with the world being more connected than ever, so many collaboration tools being created over the last years and VR evolving non stop, the office is still going to be a thing ?

I would be very surprised if in 50 years the concept of an office even exists anymore.

Honest question: in what ways do you feel it to be deeper than Civ 4? (I'm a 4 fan who did not like 5, and now I'm wondering whether I should give 6 a try.)

> They would easily work from their homes and close to their families in their countries

But what if they wouldn't? For people from some countries, getting to live in the West is a major benefit on its own. (I have to say I'm a bit afraid that the WFH shift will make immigration way more difficult than it is now.)

Moving to the west might be a dream for a lot of people but also requires sacrifices. Removing the "immigrate to work" factor from the list of sacrifices will make a lot of people to return to their roots and still work remote to their dream jobs and companies with a great compensation which is probably 2x the local one, unless they have already created a family there. I can't say this will be definite for every country worldwide, i am more biased from the crisis-hit European countries, e.g. Greece, Italy, Spain, which faced tremendous talent migration to richer countries during the last 10 years and i can say that most of them would easily return back home if they could work remotely to top-notch US companies.