I wfh now. I officially was a wfh employee for years, but went into the office anyway.
I also went to customer offices, both local and travel, mostly in the US
My commute was anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half each way and cost somewhere around 300 per month
And I was doing it because for whatever reason, it worked for me
I don’t plan on ever going back to that routine
Wfh works for me too. I don’t really feel disconnected because I’m on video calls constantly. I don’t mind being on video calls. Video is always optional, but I’m on camera unless there’s some reason not to be.
I’m communicating pretty regularly via chat /slack too
I set up my office in a way that works for me, and I’m disciplined enough to stop working as well as I was when I was in the office. Now if I work until 6:30, I can have dinner at 6:30 as opposed to waiting for a train and not walking in the door until 8:00
My coworkers are geographically dispersed and always have been. My job isn’t likely to be outsourced to India or China or Romania or Ireland or whatever the cheap tech labor location of the month is because my job is all about communicating effectively with others, and time zones matter.
I should be surfing more, but I’m really not. So I’m not clogging up the lineup for anyone yet
Every industry is different. If I worked in a hospital I wouldn’t really understand wfh either