The WFH revolution: are we happier now that we work from home?

From the boardroom to the spare room, how we are coping with this new regime? Marie Kelly finds out

What’s that old adage? Ah yes, “be careful what you wish for”.

For many people, the dream of working from home hasn’t turned out to be a fairytale at all, but more of a fiction. What was supposed to be a month-or-so-long reprieve from the humdrum routine of alarm clocks and bus timetables, cubicle claustrophobia and 4pm water-cooler conversations looks likely to last at least a year, and for many it’s beginning to feel more imprisoning than those old-fashioned punchcards.