I worked remotely for the best part of ten years. Even more so because I am in the UK and worked for a team that was mostly in the US - none others in the UK. In my last year I went into company offices on two occasions, both for week-long meetings in the US. If I went into a UK office I might meet someone I know, but never someone I worked with.

So when I changed job, it was to a more local company with an office twenty minutes from home. I started thinking I would go in one to three days a week. My first day I stayed at home filling in HR forms because my laptop hadn't been delivered. Second day I went in to collect the laptop but it wasn't there. Third day I went into a different office to meet people. Fourth day collected laptop, set up email and (what I haven't told you is that this was in the first week in March 2020) read an email saying that because of pandemic precautions all employees who could work from home should do so. That was my last day in the office until I returned my laptop fifteen months later when I retired.