Remote jobs have their lights and shadows. Some days you don't even get out of your pajamas, and you end up feeling like a giant slug. Some days you stop so many times to do random household chores that you end up working double time just because you couldn't stop getting distracted. But other days, when it's pouring rain outside, and you can stay in and work in your safe place without stepping in any mud puddle or having to look decent for other people, it feels like a blessing from above.
It's all a matter of learning how to handle it, finding equilibrium, and knowing that you'll eventually lose that equilibrium and have to find it again. Still, this is not a story about having a remote job but about losing one, and having to go back to the office, a thing that, sadly, is happening more and more these days.
Have you witnessed any dystopian scenarios just like this one after your forced RTOs? When are we going to accept that offices are over until the 'office culture' is so great we actually do want to go back? Do we really perform better as employees when we are at the office?