It is been a disaster for your mental health to have to stay at home for a while as a pretty standard public health measure, and at the same time, now, everyone with a job has tried to negotiate the right to work 2 days a week from home after the pandemic?

There is probably (doubtless) a smooth and well-coiffed explanation that I am missing that will be explained to me in simple terms as many times as I need to be boosted with it, and its definitely not cognitive dissonance on my part.