Working from home, pros and cons

For the last 15 years, I have been employed in a company dealing with the logistics and distribution of retail products.
All my colleagues who work as truck drivers, delivery people, field salesmen, warehouse workers, can only dream of a way of working called working from home.
Unlike them, I work in the IT sector.
We in the IT sector even before the emergence of covid had a certain percentage of people and time working from home.
And in the time of covid, when we were obliged to work from home, that percentage and the time we spent working from home increased, both in our IT sector and in other sectors in the company whose jobs allow them to be able to work from home.

Challenges & Opportunities of Remote Work

I personally do not like working from home even during covid and after covid.
I don't like the chair I sit on when I work from home. I don't like the glass table on which I put my laptop when I work from home. I don't like the poor lighting I have in the room where I can work... Simply, that space and furniture is not designed as an office..

When I'm in the office, I have all the office supplies at my fingertips, I have a printer, a scanner...
A few days ago I posted this post on a similar topic 😄, where you can see the space in which I work.

And there are colleagues who I can ask anything I need at a moment's notice. Verbal communication with colleagues is a much better option than chat communication.

Another thing that I don't like about working from home is the thinking of colleagues who perceive working from home as a kind of freedom, that they can do what and how they want. That they can watch TV, cook lunch, go out to the store, go to the gym, pick up their children at daycare, go to the car repair shop, go to the bank...
As if they do not realize that their duties are the same as in the office, with the fact that they have only changed the place of sitting...

In the rare situations when I accept to work from home, the hardest thing for me is to explain to my mother that even though I'm at home, I work full time, all 8 hours... I don't have time for any other activities, only related to work...

The only real advantage, in my opinion, of working from home is that you don't waste time going to work and coming home. For me, it's about 2 hours a day that I spend in transportation, but even considering those two hours, it would still be better for me to work from the office...
With colleagues who like to work from home (because of the freedoms I mentioned above), I often come into conflict. It's OK for me to have fellow programmers, colleagues who provide support for SAP, colleagues from the Helpdesk who provide support over the phone working full-time from home every day.
But I do not agree that colleagues in positions whose presence is required in offices can work from home. IT technicians, network administrators... I remember one situation. a colleague who is an IT technician, in charge of setting up computers, calls me from home and asks if I can go to the user and install a connecting computer cable, in order to pass the LAN to the user's position. When I asked him: "Where are you?". he replied "I work from home". "Then, my colleague, install that cable from home, that's not my job". Of course, I installed that cable anyway, but I wanted to express my displeasure...

And if I were to work from home, this is the only setup I could endure, a comfrotable chair, a suitable desk (and I don't have that in my apartment )...