Certain jobs don’t lend themselves to remote work, I spent the better part of 38 years in the IT world, the last approximately 15 years working remotely, even though I had the option of going to the office.
The overwhelming majority of the Engineers on the team I was on would work from home 80% of the time, we would meet at the office maybe 1 day per week to BS and go to lunch together and discuss any issues we had with the conversion projects we were working on and take conference calls with teammates that were spread out around the country, since the job required significant travel around the country often times we would not see teammates for a few months at a time.
Once you get used to working remotely it’s hard to give it up, especially if your commute is in traffic both ways to/from work. People also have a tendency to stop by your cubicle or office to BS and it wastes a lot of time each day, where as for me working from home I would work off hours get more work done in a shorter amount of time.
My son was a teacher and assistant administrator at a private school. When the owner moved the school to 50 miles away from his home, he told her that he would have to quit or work from home 3 days a week, she readily agreed. He did all of her IT work, plus administration plus taught a few classes on the 2 days he drove into school. The school was in the Chicago area, and the commute was 2 hours one way, so he just couldn’t go in 5 days a week. It worked out good for him and the school.