I think it's mostly been a net-positive for me. The lion's share of my friends are non-work, so I never really felt like I was missing out socially. I shifted to an early work schedule, 0500 to noon + some time in the evening, which gives me a lot of free time in the afternoons. I've been able to spend most of the winters in Whistler, skiing every afternoon. I've been able to travel, to the extent COVID allows, on extended trips. I've been cooking a ton and drinking an order of magnitude less. And spending more time at home forced me to move from a relatively small apartment to a spacious townhouse, which really added to overall happiness and quality-of-life.

So I think there are three downsides for me:

- The routine of going to the office daily made it really easy to fall into a healthy routine at the gym. I used to bike to work, and did at least an hour of HIIT every day - I was in the best shape of my life for a long time. It has been comparatively difficult to bring that rigour to WFH, despite objectively having more free time.

- There is definitely less connectedness throughout my organisation, and it likely has an impact on the quality of work we ship, how on-time we are, how much we understand the customer. I think during the office-primary days, there was so much learning through osmosis - overhearing another team solving a problem a few rows behind you, talking to other departments socially over lunch, etc. And so much of that is missing now, so I more often encounter situations where people aren't on the same page.

- It's so much easier and faster to solve problems in person. Encountered with a problem now, I spend a lot of time doing research, reaching out to people on Slack, avoiding creating more meeting fatigue, and when scheduling meetings needing to wrestle with availability. Whereas before it felt so easy to wrangle together the correct subject-matter experts for a 5 minute discussion.