WfH for almost 12 months here. I feel OK with it but don’t think I have it especially hard compared to other people as I live with my wife in a fairly large house and no kids to look after.
If I had to choose between WfH full-time or back to exactly as it used to be (office 9-5) it’d be a real tough choice. I think they’re both equally good/bad but just in completely different ways. Luckily as others have said I’m holding out of some sort of hybrid arrangement which if possible, I think would be great.
I also agree that we should try and avoid conflating WfH and WfH+lockdown. I expect a lot of people who are struggling would not have found it quite so hard if it was simply WfH in normal times.
I read about an app the other day that is simply a live-feed video of other people silently working which you can just add to your screen. Apparently it worked quite well at increasing productivity and wellbeing.