At how much would you value for working from home?

It's not just being at home. It's not just not having to drive 60-90 minutes each way. And it's not even just you being at home for the kids if you need childcare. First of all they ask you for 3 days now, the trend is the companies will ask you for more, then it's 4 days, then it's full time. Think about how it would work if you were back in the office. Every time you have an appointment - which presumably isn't near the office, OR you'd have to now find new service providers near the office - if it's in the morning you have to leave home a lot earlier, if it's in the afternoon you have to leave work earlier (and you can't go back to make it up, cause who wants to). If your child is sick/need to go somewhere you'd have to take the day off, half day off, or you'd have to leave the office way earlier just to pick em up and take them there. If you have ANY plans after work for yourself, dinner with friends on a Friday, leave early to go on vacation, you'd have to leave work way earlier to avoid traffic and make it in time (or reschedule, which is...make the schedule work for YOUR life, not for the company). You CANNOT (practically) have any appointments in the middle of the day unless you re-shuffle a lot of stuff around your life - find a new provider (not even guaranteed, nobody sets up shops for places you need to go to near industrial / corporate areas), just leave and go home and never return, etc etc. These are all times and hassle that adds up, and you have at least 3-4 dr's appt per year (2 dental, 1 annual phys), so does your wife, and let's imagine each of your kids get sick once a quarter plus another 2-3 random times a year. That's a lot of appointments and HOURS you need to take out of your work day FROM THE OFFICE. Not if you're just home. Also leave early to get groceries, run a quick 15-20 min errand (store, do 15min chore on break, picking up medicine)? Not to mention making up time or just taking a little extra to finish your project at work (without worrying about traffic home cause now it's rush hour), all MUCH easier when you are at home. Also you have your own private bathroom. And how is the heating and AC at work? Is it perfect every season? I bet it's perfect in your own house. Also the time you save up that you can catch extra sleep in the morning or not go to bed so early at night. 9 hours, tha's 432 hours a year. Imagine if you were paid all those hours, that's around 30k you're wasting. Even if you don't think of it that way it's still 432 hours you're wasting. The ONLY downside of your WFH is your kids might be home with you (if you change your daycare arrangement), and they'll be there on snow days and whatnot, which might actually be better for you because on snow days you'll already be home and not have to seek other arrangements.