I started remote working when I joined InfluxData in 2017. But even before that solo developers and freelancer worked from home.

This is why I am not looking to work from home. I am looking for a lot more.

I am looking for an environment that promote asynchronous communication, but not because it is cool, but because it works in our field. Products are the 10% built on top of 90% of open source code built asynchronously. This proves that it works for us.

Async communication enhance recorded communication, it can be written, or as audio message, even a video. It does not matter the channel, or the format I want something that I can refer to, link, share, reuse and consume at my own time.

I am looking for a team capable of questioning common and enforced practices such as daily standup, sprints if they feel they can deliver more, or better differently. But to do what you need good leadership. People that dislike prepacked solutions.

I am looking to work from where I feel good, and for me, it means from a familiar place or surrounded by people I love. I am very productive when I can spend an hour doing gardening before starting my workday or as a break in the morning before it will be too hot in the summer. Not only that, but I got epiphanies about better architectures, or bug fixes chopping weeds.

We are all different, I had colleagues who needed to resign because working from home was not right for them. You need to figure out what you like and in order to do that you need to watch around for options, try them and develop your preferences, but remote work was never the point.