Granted, working from home seems like a novel idea and has been used extensively these past 24 months. Also, there seems to be a move to continue after the pandemic abates. But is it really good in the long term view?
I don't care how productive you may be from home, it hampers advancement within any organization. Seriously, the advantage of playing golf with the boss, is not about talking work while golfing, but rather talking a bit of golf during work. It is an entry into an interaction with the boss. That's an element that is missing with working from home. Out of sight is out of mind in most workplaces.
So you're not worried about advancement and are perfectly content with your current freedoms given to you by working at home. Do you have a clue about how any money making enterprise functions. A new enterprise is about expansion and a mature enterprise is about reducing costs.
Working from home introduces the novel idea of that home being anywhere in the world. How wonderful for you... until someone realizes you can be replaced by cheap foreign labor, that is also working from their home.
Think your work is too valuable for something like that to happen? Which person is more likely to get the axe... someone that interacts on occasion with the boss or someone the boss rarely sees?
Out of sight... out of mind.
