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One thing that often gets overlooked: pay attention to whether you're starting to stretch your work hours. Remote work blurs easily - suddenly you're checking emails in the evening, responding on Slack, because the boundary between office and home doesn't exist. If you notice you're constantly doing "just one more quick thing" and can never really switch off, that's often a stronger signal than surface-level discomfort. A practical hack: set yourself a fixed end-of-day time and actually put everything away - laptop out of sight, notifications off. If that doesn't work over the course of weeks, remote is probably just not your setting.
Most people notice it when they start feeling isolated or when communication with colleagues suffers - suddenly everything takes longer because important conversations only happen through tickets. If you then realize you can't keep the line between work and leisure anymore and you're constantly sitting at your laptop, or if you're noticeably less motivated, that's a pretty clear sign. Sometimes just a change of scenery helps - a few days in the office can work wonders.
If you notice that you're not delivering your best work anymore, even though the tasks are objectively doable - meaning your concentration is suffering, you're procrastinating more often, or you're just less motivated - then that's a strong sign that the remote work situation isn't working for you anymore. It's often more subtle than the social aspects other people have mentioned, but it's just as real.
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