I’ve never had a WFH job and I generally don’t think I’d personally want/be successful with one. My sister is fully remote and she actually hates it, but I think its more the job she doesn’t like than the WFH aspect. She says its lonely and isolating on top of disliking her daily tasks. I’m not anti WFH for others at all, to absolutely clear.
Despite socializing a lot when I was working at the office, I pretty much immediately loved working from home after the initial 3 months. I’d gone back in temporarily a couple of times for a few reasons, and the whole environment was… Bad.
I run really hot in general, so being able to control my AC was great, since I swear the office was on 74 with about a thousand bodies worth of heat in a comparatively small space. To emphasize: I tend to open a window when it’s anywhere between 0-50F (-17 to 10C) outside.
Everyone had on different kinds of perfume, which just blended into this awful smell on top of whatever cleaning chemicals they used. Having 30+ people talking within earshot made it hard to focus on anything. I could go on. I didn’t realize how much I hated it until I started working from home, and it was so much better.