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[quote=Anonymous]Before COVID I worked from home about one day a week. Now I've been home all but seven days since March 13, 2020, and I don't plan to ever go back.

I think people's answers depend a lot on (1) the age of the their children, (2) their home office set up, and (3) the nature of their job.

My kids are in school full-time and have been since August 2021, so being at home has been easy and uninterrupted (minus the dogs barking when deliveries come). My day does start to wind up earlier when they get home from school (our nanny brings them home around 4) and I will help with homework or play with them now if I can but they also understand that sometimes I'm on calls until dinner. Now that I can sit down and start working at 7:30 when they walk out the door for school, it's easier to stop working earlier.

We built an office in our house for my husband who has always planned to work at home and was doing so before COVID, but we have an extra room that we were able to convert into a fully functional second office, so we have two rooms that are dedicated workspaces with doors and full desks, multiple monitors, etc. That has made a HUGE difference. Before when I worked from home just on my laptop I was never as productive as I was with my full spread. Now I have recreated my work office at home and I have everything I need, including a printer, scanner, and fax.

Finally, my job requires me to work with people in all of our offices across the country, so my physical presence in the local office was never really needed. My time is spent on calls with people and if I need to do something face-to-face then I will travel to where I need to be or go into my office here. I also don't have anyone who works underneath me, and my boss is in a different city from me anyway. At my previous job I think it would have been a huge loss, mostly for the new attorneys, to not be in the office because so much learning happens there. But now that I'm more senior and in a national office type job, I could move to Alaska and it wouldn't matter. [/quote]

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