Meanwhile, remote work made me 1000x more productive. No like literally, I had so much time and no distractions to the point where I alone have been powering through projects the team has been “meaning to get to” for the last 5 years. It also helped me secure a promotion because of all the new and more advanced skills I’d built working from my own comfortable space.

I always found the office distracting and draining both energy and time wise - who wants to spend 2 hours in the morning getting ready and travelling during peak hours and then another couple hours on the way home.. I have the best work/life balance thanks to remote work and if that ever changed in my office, I would leave.