Now you have had time to settle into it... what's the best and worse part of working from home.

  As of yesterday I retired, which meant that my experience with working from home was that for the past two and a half months during the stay-at-home orders, my job had us working from home for part of the week and going into the workplace for the other part. I, however, spent at least the last 30 days of it processing my retirement papers, so I was largely exempt from having any work-related tasks to accomplish.  I spent the majority of shutdown time at home. The Human Resources personnel were all considered non-essential, so they worked from home, which means thats that’s how I had to do my paperwork with them. Lots of emailing and phone calls and scanning and other such machinations. It wasn’t ideal, especially for documents that required original signatures as opposed to electronic signatures, and for redoing any documents that had discrepancies requiring corrections. Lot of snail mail went back and forth also. 

  For the portion of time that I was working from home before being informed that they would be retiring me (it’s only only mandatory retirement, it’s also early retirement), I was doing official business from home, and it wasn’t easy as pie, to be sure. Some of the same stresses with working from home that you mentioned were prevalent at my job also.  A lot of glitches had to be ironed out, and there were not a whole lot of positives involved in the process overall. Some of my coworkers enjoyed it immensely, some despised it immensely, some were on the fence. Approximately a week or two into work-from-home, I got my notice, so I wasn’t really invested in the good/bad of it as far as official duties were concerned, and now that I’m gone completely, it’s a moot point for me personally. 

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