Honestly, I was on a team @ Google that was doing consumer hardware. It had problems before WFH started, but it got 5X worse once we got sent home. The whole situation was highly unproductive, a combination of bad politics, but also a degraded tech stack with a pile of technical debt and a build system that took forever to finish, and then because of Google's "no source code on your laptop" policies (which they stubbornly wouldn't loosen during COVID) an additional 10 minutes to copy the binary to local and then push to device, and poor debugging tool support so the round trip was agony to test and prototype. It was just awful. And managers seemed to have no idea how to make it work.

So I decided to switch teams, to something that was friendlier for remote, more cloud-based backend stuff. A team that was doing daily standups. And it was sort of better. But acculturating into a new team while remote was painful. And the work unstimulating. And the depression and tedium from being stuck at home and dealing with kids in educational and emotional crisis too much.

So I just quit. Walked away from a 10 year high paying "high status" job. And I'm not the only one, friends of mine did the same thing. I suspect much of the "great resignation" was driven by the frankly irresponsible way that employers just didn't manage remote well.

I wasn't happy with $work before remote, but remote + a job with some bad aspects was like pouring naptha on a fire.

Getting a new (remote) job now after a few months off. I think it will be better.