I am responding to the original question in this thread, which I only saw today. Before the pandemic I was feeling in a rut mostly professionally, my commute was getting more stressful and because I had gym classes after work, I missed not spending a lot of time at with my husband who works from the house. Our management frowned upon formalizing remote working, so it was very frustrating for many of us who felt it was just a trust issue ... and we all knew we could do our work from home easily. So, in some sense the silver lining of all of this has been the ability to spend more time at home, and clearly demonstrating to our office leadership that we can work remotely. I feel the genie is out of the bottle, in that in the future, there should be no reason not to formalize such a schedule. But because my husband is a professional musician, one part of our income has dried up, and he is very heartbroken about not being able to play. We are in California, and for about a month he was starting to play again outdoors, socially distanced. And then our local town pulled the plug on that a few weeks ago. We at least enjoy being home together (and we feel fortunate to have a pool!). We also have an RV, so we were able to take our usual summer trip to the mountains and not deal with anyone. I had to go back home to New York a few months ago to help my elderly parents and need to go back again, but now it's harder because there is a quarantine rule in New York. So right now I feel like it's all starting to catch up with me, and I'm getting antsy to resume the normal world again. I am so thankful we are healthy, but I miss being able to visit family and friends, go to restaurants, listen to music, go to my gym and take classes or sit in the steam room and chat with others there, Etc. The only thing I don't miss is commuting to the office 5x a week. Wishing you all the best and that we get through this together soon.