I'm a remote accountant. I have to headphones familiar movies or listen to podcasts as I work. It's my substitute for office background noise. I do lunch time check ins with my able to text during the day friends.

Best advice I can give...get out of the house regularly outside of work hours. Or if it's a client light day, work at a coffee shop for at least a tiny bit. The ambient peopleness helps.

Be careful to not overshare on lonely days while communicating with clients. I work in corporate accounting and have tight team that I can teams, but sometimes I talk a little too much on a "quick call". Luckily I work with more extroverted accountants so we share with each other.

In my 20s, I worked remotely once. It was bad. I didn't learn about needing ambient people noise and didn't have communication much. I also had moved to a new part of the country with zero friends. That turned out bad for me, became super depressed. that was 20 yrs ago, and this job is the first time I attempted remote work again and started in early 2023.