It has been devastating for work-life balance. It has done nothing for productivity.
The Government of Canada was very proud to announce how productivity had gone up during COVID when people were at home working full time. You could say that the one positive that came out of COVID was proving that they could do their work full time from home. Productivity actually increased. Now we see the announcement that offices are going to be retrofitted into affordable housing, and that, combined with telling employees arbitrarily that they have to come back to work three days a week, really doesn't make any sense for a government that says they're trying to save money.