I was speaking with my contact advisor at Fidelity Inv about just this thing and he said that since the shift to work at home they have seen productivity go through the roof.
Back in the day (1980’s) I used to go into the office on Sunday mornings. I found I could accomplish in about 2 hours what would take me a full day during the week. No phones, no one coming in to my office to ask me what they should do about this or that.
My observation over the years has been that if a work group knows each other well and then starts working from home, things can go smoothly. But it’s difficult to bring in new people, and it makes changes tougher. If Bob’s job is going out in the field, doing something and then filing reports, he can do this from home. But if Bob has to learn a new skill or duty, he can’t just stop by Joe’s cubicle. And, since they’re no longer chatting daily, with time Joe and Bill lose some of the ‘team spirit’.
It does make it much easier to cut somebody loose though, because now you’re just that ‘guy on Zoom’.