"long hours in a house alone" != remote work
Remote work is work you do remotely—i.e., outside of a traditional "butts in seats" company office where employees form an in-person collective during business hours.
Obviously the pandemic has put a damper on the various possibilities available, but by way of example, you can work at (assuming all you need is a laptop + internet connection):
a cowork space (either drop-in or rent a dedicated desk), a coffee shop, a restaurant, a mall, a train, a car, outside at a park, a hotel, a library, up on a mountain top, at a friend or family's house, on a boat, and probably one or two other options I'm forgetting. (Fun fact, I've done all of those.)
Now do I actually do the majority of work at my home office? Yeah, sure. I'll grant you that. But by intentionally making sure it's not just my all-the-time default and mixing things up as often as possible, it keeps remote work fun and engaging.
Remote work is work you do remotely—i.e., outside of a traditional "butts in seats" company office where employees form an in-person collective during business hours.
Obviously the pandemic has put a damper on the various possibilities available, but by way of example, you can work at (assuming all you need is a laptop + internet connection):
a cowork space (either drop-in or rent a dedicated desk), a coffee shop, a restaurant, a mall, a train, a car, outside at a park, a hotel, a library, up on a mountain top, at a friend or family's house, on a boat, and probably one or two other options I'm forgetting. (Fun fact, I've done all of those.)
Now do I actually do the majority of work at my home office? Yeah, sure. I'll grant you that. But by intentionally making sure it's not just my all-the-time default and mixing things up as often as possible, it keeps remote work fun and engaging.