During COVID my workplace had to go fully remote

IT has (left over from waterfall) some skills stronger in some states, so IT teams were reshuffled to get people from all over to balance them

So when we were allowed to return to the office, we were required to be there 3 days a week

With the spread out teams we had no in person meetings, we rarely saw team members even if they were on the same site

So we felt very much like the difference was to commute to do MS Teams meetings in the office on small screens three times a week, and have no commute and do MS Teams meetings on our own screens twice a week

We are lucky enough now to have full time work from home

Edit to add: management aren't on the same agreement as the rest of us, they have individual contracts. Very few of them have access to remote work