Firstly - Sorry if I missed the annoucement regarding above.
What should we expect to happen, I see no great change - except there seems to be a fall off on the demand for beds. Tavern is full, the thralls are sitting around vaccuming up gruel from the feeding bowls, no observable change( except the mentioned bed use ) - Hopefully I wont loose a Thrall or two at some random moment over the next days.
May not have went into effect yet. Should with the latest/next server restate so about 7AM on the NA servers. {a bit over an hour from this posting}
And it should return to placing thralls at benches and they stay there. Beds and chairs should remain empty unless you set a thrall in them. So finally, once again my work room will be lively.
Guess I need to take the none wandering thralls off the benches.
Have you checked to see if Living Settlements are unchecked on your server? You can see this by going to Server Settings in the menu.
When Living Settlements is disabled the crafter/bench thralls do not wander or fulfill needs, they stay still.
You will still benefit from the radial effect on benches, can dress them and put emotes on them.