Having worked remotely for the past few years, my experience has been that working remotely depends on the team itself as much as it depends on the individual's ability to work from home/remote.
The #1 factor that made the difference for me is how many others in the same team are remote. For Clarity (a team I lead), we decided early on to have a completely remote team. Few members of the team do work in HQ but most of them are remote. We wrote something about it here: https://medium.com/claritydesignsystem/working-remote-how-we...
Not to repeat the same post again but having the whole team remote with the option to gather every few months made a huge difference for us.
I've also worked remotely previously with a team that was mostly centered in one location, that wasn't a pleasant experience. Most of the decisions were still discussed outside of scheduled meetings and I constantly felt like an inconvenience to the team especially when having to setup communication and video conferencing tools at the beginning of each meeting just for me.
The #1 factor that made the difference for me is how many others in the same team are remote. For Clarity (a team I lead), we decided early on to have a completely remote team. Few members of the team do work in HQ but most of them are remote. We wrote something about it here: https://medium.com/claritydesignsystem/working-remote-how-we...
Not to repeat the same post again but having the whole team remote with the option to gather every few months made a huge difference for us.
I've also worked remotely previously with a team that was mostly centered in one location, that wasn't a pleasant experience. Most of the decisions were still discussed outside of scheduled meetings and I constantly felt like an inconvenience to the team especially when having to setup communication and video conferencing tools at the beginning of each meeting just for me.