Learning to WFH is as much a skill as learning to operate in an office environment. The difference, when you learn the former you also have increased freedom.
Learning to WFH is as much a skill as learning to operate in an office environment. The difference, when you learn the former you also have increased freedom.
When you spend 40 hours of your week doing something, it's going to influence you.
No amount of "satisfying life outside of work" can make up for a workplace that you don't enjoy. That's true for toxic workplaces, it's true for people who can't stand in-office work, and it's true for people who can't stand remote.
It's unfair to try to blame it all on the person's personal life. Different people work well in different environments. The WFH maximalists and in-office maximalists need to stop acting high and mighty like their way flawless.
People aren't obligated to shut up and tolerate working conditions they dislike. Changing their lives outside of work won't make them enjoy those working conditions more.
Any net new work is too abstract and complex for the HN CRUD engineer crowd to be central too.
Go find a local job onsite. No one is going to miss you at your office because we all know implicitly this is just busy work to preserve nation state status quo.