Consultant home office or shared rental office

[SirGrotius]

I’m a consultant and work with a couple other people who work remotely. For the past few years, I have had both a home office and a rental office where I share space with other people. I have had this rental office for about 8-9 years.

What I like about the rental office:
- Like to get out for the mindspace
- Feel more professional/dress up a bit more
- More professional sounding address for business
- Very close to cool restaurants, stores, parks
- Interact with other consultants, lawyers, architects, therapists, etc.
- Reasonable price
- More light (big window) than my home office (basement time!)
- Backup location in case internet outage

Why I’m considering jettisoning the rental and going full WFH:
- I have a nice, zen home
- I work from home already at least 50% of the time!
- Shaves off $1000-$1250 a month in fees (although business expenses can be somewhat deducted from total taxes)
- Might spend more time exercising/going outdoors (although not sure about this due to the office location)
- I can keep the business address alone for a small monthly fee
- Ecologically sound (although rental office is about 10 minutes away so not egregious)

Anyway, is it time, if you were a SBO (small business owner) of a consulting shop to go full WFH, or if you were in my shoes, would you straddle the hybrid model despite the monthly fee?

As a small business, we have had a bit of success early on but the pandemic hit us pretty hard, so are at a slower pace, thus, shaving off $12k-14k a year would be nice to have, but not requisite.

Thank you

 

[Master Milano]

As a small business, we have had a bit of success early on but the pandemic hit us pretty hard, so are at a slower pace, thus, shaving off $12k-14k a year would be nice to have, but not requisite.

I'm curious what did you end up deciding on?