This happened last year. I got covid and was working from home for 15days as per isolation i called my boss and asked him if i could continue working from home since i find it more relaxing and i am being more creative with my work he said yeah thats fine its all the same to us as long as you do your job on time. A few weeks passed and he kept asking me every few days when do i plan on returning on which i replied anytime when you need me i will return to work from office.
Ofcourse it didnt have to pass long time for him to call me back on excuse we are gonna have a bunch of more work to do and its just easier to communicate eye to eye (read it like: yeah me and few other people wonna micromanage every step of your work because we know better than you). I returned and that “bunch of more work” was half to an hour more worth of tasks (i allready had enough of free time in my shift to do it anyway).
Fast forward..last month all the bosses moved to new office space at other part of town away from us dispensable work force, if this isnt hypocrisy i dont know what is. I know it sounds stupid but for me getting corona and working home together with my wife for that short period of time was one of the best things that happened to me in the last few years. Just beeing with her home, working in my pj, making us breakfast, listening to our favourite music, enjoying the sun, no loud coworkers and bosses that ask 20 stupid questions per minute.
Since that the company is just getting shittier and shittier by day.
But hey on the plus side this just gives me wind in my back to start searching for different job 🙂