I Miss Working from the Office
I think that what isn&#x27;t discussed enough is the variance in quality of your office environment and of your home office and how that quality affects your preferences about working from home. It sounds quite obvious but in these arguments people often just state what they personally like and leave it at that.<p>Your office can be place where you still have the option to work uninterrupted but also get the benefits of face-to-face interaction, casual exposure to work ideas, better meetings, having all the equipment you need, separating work and personal life. Or it can be a hell where you hate every second and can&#x27;t get anything done. Your commute can be a 15-minute walk or it can be a couple of hours of driving - vastly different experiences.<p>Your home office can mean working on a laptop at a tiny desk in a small bedroom in shared accommodation with loud housemates; or it can be a great setup in a separate room in your own flat&#x2F;house. Again, those are completely different experiences.<p>I suspect that a lot of people talk about how much they like remote because they happened to be on the bad end of the office-quality scale and the good end of the home-quality scale. And when your work circle is made up people who also worked in the same bad office environment, it&#x27;s easy to say something like &quot;no one I know wants to go back to the office&quot;.<p>Personally, I&#x27;ve had a great office with a short commute in the past, and my home office situation is quite poor right now. So I&#x27;m looking forward to working from an office in the future.