various issues with WFH and WFO post COVID
One of them is regulatory, some contracts demand you come to the office. Therefore, some low level HR are sometimes pushed to go more strict "to cope with regulations".
Others are fiscal, when you are transborder, like is my case. In this regard, I was **totally** appalled to read the European bill coming from France in march this year, meant to alleviate the necessity to come to the offices 75% of the time for european transborder workers (yep, 75%, that basically means 4 days per week, aka 80%).
The bill (not expected to even be discussed before 2023 at best), states it should be possible to work a maximum of ... 2 days per week from home ! Yes, a wonderful step forward for the planet, no shit !
Then, some people, back to the office, are now making it a very hostile work environment. I recently lost the plot (very unusual for me) at a colleague, in the open space, located 25 m from me: he was having his teams meeting in **full volume laptop speakers/microphone** ! WTF, I told him, all the staff is in your meeting with no way to cut the sound !
Now, since we do have closed rooms for this, in case you *really* don't want a head set, all his group spend the day locked in those rooms, LOL.
Finally, as many pointed out, full time WFH is very hard, socially. Even for me. Some UK colleagues apparently manage this, I have no idea how ...