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.
No. I have ADHD and need external pressure to be productive.
Working from home in my job doesn’t signal that pressure.
Most of the tasks that are assigned to me can always wait for another day.
So at home, I mostly just browse Feddit.
At work, I have people around me who can see my screen, and I can hear the issues my colleagues are having.
And since a day of fucking around makes me feel more exhausted at the end than a day working productively, I prefer going to the office.
The bicycle commute that wakes me up in the morning, releases stress in the evening, and keeps me fit, is a bonus.
This sounds like my experience before I burned out. And while I was in the process of burning out, I still would have preferred to work from the office because home was, and is, my safe space. I don’t want work intruding there.
This does not mean that I haven’t worked from home - I was the on-call tech more than once, nor does it mean that I think WFH is a bad idea. In fact I’m all for it for those who can handle it.
I like the idea of unnecessary layers of manglement sweating because they can’t justify their existence through pointless micromanagement.