Same for me. I'm more productive at home and the occasional office visit is primarily for socializing with coworkers. There's only one other person in my team in my office location and we just schedule 2 or 3 days a month where we meet up in the office to catch up.

Yeah, I get the socializing aspect and it hasn't been bad coming in. I've been wfh for the past like 4 years so it's nice to put on actual clothes instead of wearing joggers and t-shirts every day lol. You're lucky you're only required to come in one day a week. We have to come in 3 days (eventually we'll be monitored to make sure we come in 3 days) but at least we can pick the 3 days every week.

On the plus side, we have assigned cubes (no hotel cubes thankfully!) and since I was part of the first small group to come in, I was able to change cubes.

However, I still think it's BS that companies are forcing the back to work crap with such strict boundaries.

For me, it’s important as a mental health thing. Working from home, I tend not to see other humans and not go anywhere I don’t need to. I’m also poor at establishing work-life boundaries.

Meanwhile, going into work means getting presentable, interacting with people, not forgetting a lunch break, and I tend to stop working when the place empties out.

It’s also important for career advancement. I’m poor at self-promotion, so working from home is “out of sight, out of mind” no matter how much I do. It’s easy to say that management needs to figure that out, but it’s in my self-interest to make sure they realize when I get shit done