I'm now just coming into my 6th year and 2nd job that have been largely remote work, and while I can relate to the issues with the blurred boundaries between wo

I'm now just coming into my 6th year and 2nd job that have been largely remote work, and while I can relate to the issues with the blurred boundaries between work and life... I'm still in the honeymoon period. I've probably been lucky that both the teams I've worked with have been small enough to get to know and strong at mixing async messaging, video calls, and occasional facetime to good effect for both coordination and camaraderie. Not everyone is set up that way; I can think of some previous off-site contract gigs I had which didn't fit that description and your downsides match my experience more closely there. Overall, though, whether in-office or remote the worst work/life balance issues have always come from sheer workload more than anything else. If that's addressed remote work doesn't make it worse, just changes the moment to moment tradeoffs, and the gains from being able to flexibly context shift and not having to manage commutes are alone so strong I wouldn't want to give it up. Social isolation is a problem I'm willing to solve for myself (and at some level have to anyway).