>Someone closer to retirement with a lot of savings and low expenses will have a completely different answer than a younger person with low savings and a family.

Maybe this is the way companies rid themselves of older workers who push back on things. The FIRE movement is huge in tech, and I imagine a not insignificant number of people have RTO as the last straw where they pull the ripcord. Personally, for me? There's no going back. The only way you could get me into the office on a regular basis is if you let me work on rovers at JPL or something.

For myself, I'd love nothing more if I could code part time in retirement, for the rest of my life, but I won't RTO to do it. If I have to leave development behind? So be it.

This study found the opposite.

https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/charting-remot...