Hey Donna! I totally agree. I would just add that there's no real difference between being in office 1 day a week vs 5 days a week when compared to working fully remote.

Unless a job is fully remote, you have to live within commuting distance of work, and you're limited to only being able to apply to jobs in your local market.

My point is that being willing to work any number of days in the office is going to reduce the number of applicants to that position by probably 90% compared to a remote job.

I'd estimate that you'd only see 50-100 applicants for a job with any in-office requirements versus 1,000+ applicants for fully-remote jobs, meaning you are 100% right that you can be more or a competitive candidate by applying to jobs that are less attractive for some reason.

https://medium.com/career-programming/its-a-fact-remote-software-engineer-jobs-receive-1-000-applicants-each-82fb06507bbf