Anonymous wrote:I just posted a thread about WFH and rethinking one’s retirement horizon. Unfortunately, the first poster decided I was a troll, the same OP as this thread, and got my thread deleted. Why?
Anyway, I’ll ask my question here because it’s to the same audience. If you work minimal time from home - about 3 hours a day or less - and you could mostly keep your WFH status, would it change your time horizon for retirement?
For me, it has. The combination of low effort, a regular professional salary, and the flexibility to work from various locations has me not seeing retirement as a huge improvement over work. I’m a federal worker, and though the pension is nice, it’s nowhere near my salary.
Thoughts?
My old all remote company the second largest category of leavers is “job abandonment”
No one ever retired. They basically did absolutely bare minimum or literally ghosted getting weeks, months even 1-3 years pay. Then they get off boarded we have two weeks pay in leu of notice plus two weeks severance per year then they file unemployment.
People going back to school or retiring why quit. I stopped working around August 2022, maybe 2-3 hours a week. I finally quit May 2023 and they asked me to stay. I easily could have milked it another year or two.
Why anyone would retire is beyond me in private. Wait for layoff