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100% agree.Honestly working and learning from home has been one of the most demoralising experiences for me in the long run. For me nothing beats being able to attend a lecture in person and engage with people on the topics you are studying, and even being able to sit down in a library to read and take notes on campus is leagues better than being locked up in a home office for two years. I'm lucky to attend a university that was already heavily invested in the online learning space, so the information factor wasn't impacted, it was the entire vibe/aesthetic of it.
What was meant to be the dream research project to cap off 4 years of hard work has turned into a slow burn sitting at a desk 24/7, writing some code, reading some papers and occasionally attending online meetings. While it wouldn't have been that all that different process-wise without COVID, I would at least have had the advantage of getting out to meet people in person or god forbid just go for a walk.
I think early on in the pandemic everyone was excited about the novelty of being able to work at their desk in their pajamas and have all this free time that would otherwise be a commute, but the lack of environmental compartmentalisation for work/home/hobbies is seriously harmful. Some blind executive or celebrity might be like "well just dedicate a room for each thing", but most of us either live with other people or can only afford a small residence, so we work, play and sleep in effectively the same place.
All in all: not good.
The part about environmental compartmentalisation is absolutely true. Its so much harder to switch off and my sleep quality has been impacted ever since. No one really wants a commute but the funny thing is that time to decompress and physically travel between your work and home life was something we didn't realise was necessary until now.
It's like we've ended the work / life balance era and entered into work - life integration.