That said, five minutes means one could come home for lunch.
But anyway, five minute walk to work is highly unlikely; a lot of people (most? citation needed?) have a commute to work, either driving or public transit. I'd rather have a nice private office or small team room than a big open and loud office space.
Long time ago I used to rent a room in a shared house 5 min walk from work. My housemates were all cool people, but working on a laptop sitting next to the bed I slept in every night would e far worse for me than just going to the office. But this was decades ago. I can understand why someone in such position would prefer an office.
But if you can have a house, and you're mid/senior in your role there is nothing better than wfh.
Also I've recently noticed a disturbing trend. Companies advertising 100% remote work, then you go through the whole recruitment process and at the very end they tell you. BTW, it's not 100% wfh. You gotta come to the office 1 day per month (sometimes even 1 per week). Anyone looking for real wfh job should be aware of such tricks to nip them in the bud early on.
This would have been much more uncomfortable in a smaller 2BR apartment and almost unmanageable in any space smaller than that.
Given my space, my WFH desk is much crappier and smaller than my personal one, but still so much better than losing my life commuting.
He used it to his advantage to show his face in the office, but rarely ever put in a full day. So sure he might show up on reports as being a 2-3x/week attender while others were doing 0-1, but many of those were morning-only, afternoon-only, or drop-ins for an in-person meeting of importance. Plus the occasional Friday solitude getaway to the empty office.
To his credit he really put no RTO pressure on us relative to his management chain.
I really don’t get when people defend WFH as a Holy Grail and complain that are catalogued as lazy or freeloaders, only to become fierce critics and cataloging anyone who prefers going to the office as boot-lickers or mediocre middle-management (not your post SteveBK123, but a common attitude across this type of thread)
Everyone has different circumstances, different jobs, and our minds work differently. Let’s live and let live.
I.e., when the two of you are finally home alone and awake, because school is in session.
I suspect for some marriages, WFH has been a real blessing.
It's much easier for some to have a complete separation of work and home spaces. Also a change of scenery in the morning and getting to move a bit before starting to work is nice.
If you work 5 mins from your home you can just walk there for lunch. No need to bag a lunch, no?