Yesterday at work, I hid in the quiet room (door shut, no windows), put on headphones with white noise, sat on the floor, and worked for an hour.
That was my only hour of working with code yesterday.
I’m sure all the “creativity” and “spontaneous conversations” I must be making on my work-from-office days makes up for the hit to my productivity and mental health.
To be fair, my mental health has been shot to pieces for weeks. It’s just that I can manage it better within the controlled environment of my home, and still get a lot done. Being forced to go to the office just makes it worse with all the interruptions and noise.