The work from homers will become lazy and start to shrivel up. They will have to pay essential workers to come in and wipe their asses for them.

If you're not sore at the end of the day, you don't work.

It also seems likely that corporate surveillance will rise, as companies will wish to monitor their employees, in order to "make sure" they are actually "working". There may be incidents in which employees are fired because a program, which has been installed on their work computer by corporate IT, detected that they did not click their mouse button a sufficient average number of times in one minute.

I think in Marxist terms the majority of the WFH is just another evolution of the labor aristocracy, but this time their exploitation is made even more apparent

I've seen a range of WFH folk who are not privileged; they are call centre workers and other low status IT type roles. Sometimes the home they are in does not sustain their work - a tiny bedsit; a share house with students; a car... The work can be lonely and isolating and I am aware of quite a lot of mental ill health coming out of the WFH arrangements in my city.

Yes. Increasing amounts of agoraphobia ( I am not using the latest term for this condition, phobias are now out of style, it is some other anxiety disorder), suicide, addiction, and anhedonia are being reported. I would further postulate that in my region suicidal ideation has increased by a factor of five. Serious side effects of Work From Home and other pandemic responses. As our medical officer pointed out a number of months ago "...there are far worse things than Covid." For once, I fully support her statement.

It is a fantastic lifestyle/way to work. I have been doing it for the better part of two decades, so everyone like me is catching up. I respect those who have to actually go somewhere (and all that hassle entails) to earn a living. And pity them.

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Lots of WFH people will be returning to the workplace society simply to be around their fellows. I am a retired prof and a colleague of mine who has been teaching online from our university is relieved, even delighted to return to the classroom. He was on the verge of retiring.

Really bleak outlooks on work from home in here. No doubt it has it's challenges but I've seen an overwhelming amount of support for it across the internet and I think it's very much deserved.

As a software developer who got the opportunity to try it for a month due to COVID, I couldn't have been happier. My life was way more balanced. I saved a lot of money that would have otherwise been wasted on travelling, gained two more hours sleep, cut my junk food intake and had a lot more time and energy on an evening to tend to my hobbies and catch up with friends. I was also way more enthuastic and productive at work.

Without actually considering whether or not it had any merits, the CEO shut it down the first chance he got. I assumed it was a feeling of being undermined since he can code from the comfort of his home as he pleases (..most of the week).

After that opportunity I really started thinking: Why do I go to work when my presence contributes absolutely nothing to getting shit done? In absence of a good reason, I'll probably be looking for a WFH opportunity the moment I wrap up some projects at my current job.