Of course ADHD is different from person to person. I personally find it easier to work in the office.
At home there's too many distractions and without people around me, I feel less accountable to actually work rather than scroll through reddit.
Despite the people talking around me, I find general chatter less distracting than absolute silence.
I am about 4-5x more productive when I disable my internet. The "human" equivalent of "disable internet" is to work when family members are sleeping. Not the healthiest solution, sadly. (Living alone was more productive, but also pretty depressing.)
I used to find noise annoying in the pre-covid days, but I could cope with it.
Then I worked remotely, and while the silence was deafening for the first week or so, I grew to love it, and the focus it gives me.
Now I am back in the office some days a week, and it is worse than ever, in part as I've tasted what working in silence does for me. But mainly as non in post-covid times everyone takes their meetings at their desks.
Sitting near me today was a team of 5 people all on a call together from their desks, as one person was remote.
In the old days they would have grabbed a meeting room to run that call, but now everyone does it from their desks.
The noise is so annoying, and makes my remote days all the sweeter. Wearing noise cancelling headphones all day hurts my ears and head, plus gives me sweaty ears - which leads to more wax which leads to increased tinnitus for me. As someone with ADHD, tinnitus can really mess with my day.
This is my exact fear (as someone who also has ADHD). I will need to work in-office at the end of the year. I guess I have time to make adjustments, but I still am concerned my output will not be as great.
I don’t have ADHD as far as I’m aware, but in the office noise canceling headphones mostly worked with the caveat that everybody in eyeshot was sitting for the most part. Sometimes when there’d be a flurry of movement for some reason or another with people ping ponging between desks and such my focus would be torpedoed and I’d have to resign myself to being a fourth or fifth as effective as normal until people settled in again.
At home there's too many distractions and without people around me, I feel less accountable to actually work rather than scroll through reddit. Despite the people talking around me, I find general chatter less distracting than absolute silence.