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I know exactly what I've "lost" by going wfh: a 45 minute commute both ways (and the biking exercise), an open-office panopticon, and being surrounded by coworkers who don't know how to chew with their mouths closed.

I do NOT feel like my relationships with coworkers are any less friendly or social working from home.

Unfortunately, the office environment wasn't/isn't terrible by nature. It's terrible because it's not about work, it's about managers making life awful for people so they can feel a sense of power. And there's nothing preventing them from ruining wfh in the same way. We're already seeing mandatory webcam observation in student and low-status (eg customer support) roles.

Private offices to cubicles could be plausibly justified by cost, but cubicles to open office was entirely about making life worse. The panopticon will come for wfh too, probably even worse, if we do not fight it every inch.