My wife worked from home for about 8 years, 2011-2019. She hated it mostly, but there were very little choices. She was pigeon-holed in a career, her "office" was in Manhattan, and she had not pursued options.
She didn't get to socially interact with many people and the NYC work life/attitude/schedule leaves a lot to be desired for those of us who live real lives. Most of these office workers in NYC drag in from 9:00 to 10:30 and working until 7:30-8:00 nightly doesn't even register to them. Meanwhile, I get home about 4:30-5:30, want to eat dinner about 6:00-6:30 and my wife has to keep working to finish up the day's tasks that weren't solidified until about 3:00 pm....
And I swear .... every freaking day before she was to go on vacation, there'd be some deadline, she'd work until 10:00 pm.
Her options were to look for work in downtown Atlanta, which I was not going to agree to her driving to that craphole full of crime, traffic, gangs, etc., pay $80-100/mo to park and basically have the same work schedule because the NYC Architecture community trains the Atlanta community.
She took a job paying 33% less, drives 10 miles each way and loves her 8-5 job, going to an office and interacting with people face-to-face. She actually works for a municipality and they only worked from home about 2 weeks in April of 2020. Never had a mask mandate and were open to the public the entire time. Amazin', huh?