Relying on something like train timings to enforce your work life balance isn’t a reliable strategy.
What if the trains started running every 5 minutes? Or what if you moved a little closer and you could walk?
If you don’t want to use willpower to stop working you could add some structured activity (after COVID) like a workout class after work. Or you could generally just make more deliberate plans for you after work time.
Or my personal favorite. Start a hobby you like more than work.
If trains are infrequent enough (every 20-30 minutes or more) that it's worth planning around the schedule, it's generally unlikely that the frequency will be changed significantly in any 10-year period.
Maybe not every train, but an individual train route could easily significantly change in frequency for a few hours a day, or more likely the train schedule could get worse to the point where you can’t leave until later.
Or the office could move, you could move, your office could change the time of the last meeting of the day etc...
Relying on the granularity of the train schedule to enforce work life balance is brittle at best, and it’s a terrible argument against WFH.
What if the trains started running every 5 minutes? Or what if you moved a little closer and you could walk?
If you don’t want to use willpower to stop working you could add some structured activity (after COVID) like a workout class after work. Or you could generally just make more deliberate plans for you after work time.
Or my personal favorite. Start a hobby you like more than work.