I’ve never had a WFH job and I generally don’t think I’d personally want/be successful with one. My sister is fully remote and she actually hates it, but I think its more the job she doesn’t like than the WFH aspect. She says its lonely and isolating on top of disliking her daily tasks. I’m not anti WFH for others at all, to absolutely clear.
I have been working from home for more than twenty years now, when I started doing one or two days a week before then I am old enough to predate any sort of Internet VPN and had to dial in directly.
In my time I have had jobs were I have never been into the office, not even once, for the duration of working there.
Main benefits are:
–The time and cost savings of a lack of commute, which are significant
–Get paid London rates while living somewhere a lot lot cheaper
–Get to spend far more time with my kids as they grew up
–Work from anywhere, I have worked from sail boats and while camping
–Quiet days you can do what you want
Main downsides:
–Busy days can turn into no sleep multiple days if you aren’t careful
–You are often expected to be available for far longer hours due to no commute dead time
–No such thing as a snow day, and sick days you have to be really ill to be off
–I don’t get to dress up for work anymore
Your downsides make me think you work for a pretty shitty company. I don’t work a second longer than scheduled ever. If I want to take a sick day I don’t even tell them why. They don’t care. If I go over my allocation they might ask what’s up but that has never happened.
I get paid for all OT, either a half day or a full day depending if I go over, its enough money to make it worth while as I am mattress stuffing being close to retirement.
Ok, that makes sense.