I forced myself to RTO and I'm exhausted

Aside from a brief period in 2021 where I was forced to RTO by my then-employer, Riot Games, and a period in 2023 where I worked from Heart Machine three days a week, I've worked mostly from home for the last five and a half years since COVID kicked off. I also worked primarily from home in 2015, when I first moved to Los Angeles while working for Tencent - there was no Tencent desk space available for me in the city, so I just worked from my bedroom for the better part of a year. I'm very comfortable and productive working that way! We shipped all six of the Forge games at Riot with me working primarily from home. It was easier for me to do massive rewrite and editorial passes on some of those games while in the privacy of my home. For a new professional collaboration, however, we're currently forcing ourselves to work from an office three days a week. Then on a fourth day, we go work with a friend of mine who is at home on maternity leave and feeling lonely. At the end of a whole…