Working from home is incredibly helpful to mitigate the stresses that used to happen around commuting! If my office wasn’t far away, like 5-10 mins I would miss it but I used to commute 60-90 minutes in the morning alone so not having to do that was crucial! Lots more enjoyable stuff now, and my commute is 15 seconds. Can’t beat that :D
Oh yeah, I couldn't even imagine having to commute for an hour. That's just nasty. My longest commute has been 20 minutes, and I was always happy for that. I will admit that I have some nostalgic feelings now, but I wouldn't go back to it, either. The intangible benefits of being home are huge.
Yeah the downside of it is not being able to have the social aspect. I know not everyone likes being social and certain groups of people are not conducive to that but I was fortunate enough that I had a fairly good social interaction with most people. Granted we are social on apps like Teams now but it's not the same as sitting in the room with some people and shooting the shit lol