Personally, I can't wait to get back into an office. Working from home has helped me break some previous bad habits and improve my self-discipline - which both positively impacted my productivity while working from home.
However, even with commuting time, I'm happier (due to distinct separation of home-time and work-time) and more productive when I have an office I work from 3-4 days a week.
During my last "remote" engagement I joined a small community co-working space in Boston after two weeks of "true" work from home. I've found my idea balance is 3-4 days a week in-office and 1-2 days "remote".
I envy those of you who can work remote without issue, even as an introvert who dislikes lots of people and distractions I can't see "remote first" as something I enjoy going forward.
There was a poll on linkedIn I came across with over 10k responses where the slight majority of people believe partial working from home was the best, beating out full working from home by a little, and no working from home being significantly in last.
i've been pretty much 100% remote the last 5 years or so. I definitely rely on coworking spaces to get out of the house and around other humans. It's especially bad when kids are in school and wife is working ( she's a teacher ). Being without human contact all day every day really weighs on me over time.
However, even with commuting time, I'm happier (due to distinct separation of home-time and work-time) and more productive when I have an office I work from 3-4 days a week.
During my last "remote" engagement I joined a small community co-working space in Boston after two weeks of "true" work from home. I've found my idea balance is 3-4 days a week in-office and 1-2 days "remote".
I envy those of you who can work remote without issue, even as an introvert who dislikes lots of people and distractions I can't see "remote first" as something I enjoy going forward.