Like many, the ability to be present with your family resonates a lot for me. I’ve been working remotely (at least 3/5 of my time) for most of the past decade,

Like many, the ability to be present with your family resonates a lot for me. I’ve been working remotely (at least 3/5 of my time) for most of the past decade, but in the last two years it has been an absolute godsend. Without going into detail, we ended up in a high-needs situation with one of our teenage kids a couple of years ago. Fortunately I have a very good relationship with the company I work with, so was able to switch from partially remote to 100% remote, and as things shook out, ended up part-time (3 days a week). Some days I’ve been unable to start work until 10 or 11, or I’ve had to go down to the school three times, or quite frankly I’ve had days of just being too emotionally drained and upset to be able to work as well as I would like. So have certainly had some late working nights to compensate. Measure based on what I expect to have completed more so than total hours worked, and carefully curate the todo list with my manager regularly. My wife works in customer service, so she has nowhere near the flexibility in scheduling that I have, so it has worked out the best for the situation we’ve been in. Never could have happened if we were both office-bound. One of us would have had to stop working for a couple of years. (Addendum: Some of the above sounds quite dire, and it has been at times, but we are well into recovering and approaching a more “normal-needs” situation.)