I work literally 10 minutes from my house. I would rather work from home. It's 5 traffic lights to the office. I can drive, waste fuel, clothes, time, insurance, tires, etc. Or I can work from home and do exactly the same shit I do in a box only from the comfort from my own home. And if I need to come in I'm 10 minutes away. Yet here I am, back in the office, and flex time is going away soon.
This is the other differentiator - quality of the office. Some people seem to not have an office that is anything other than a bunch of desks put near each other.
Even if you had a nice office, you might get looked at funny if you showed up every single day in your pajamas or some stained gym shorts (like I do now from home). Another big benefit is I can double time stuff. If someone is hosting a meeting and I'm merely in attendance rather than have to present something myself, I usually eat food, do laundry, garden, showering, or workout with the zoom meeting open. I'm still listening, I'm just actually doing something productive and useful to my life instead of sitting silently watching a power point in a dark room fighting the urge to fall asleep.
