Home From Work?

Thoughts on four-plus years of remote work and self-employment

I started working from home back in May 2019—close to a year before the pandemic, back when I had a magazine job. Since then, I’ve worked from home/remotely, and since early 2021 I’ve been self-employed.

I really needed to do it back in 2019. We had a small, cramped office, I had a two-hour round-trip commute, traffic had worsened since I began it, and I…