I’ve been working remotely since 2013. Occasionally I will ponder what it would take for me to commute to an office again. The current price is $2m+/yr and I’m gone and retired for good, as in not answering any phones for any price, after a year or two.

I’d work a year or two, pay off my house, cover the roof in enough solar panels to provide 200% of my current energy use with battery backup for 2-3 days at full usage and probably try to buy some land in a place unlikely to be affected by climate change where I could build a farmstead myself at my own pace.

If my current job said I had to come into the office with no pay raise then I would quit on the spot and shut off all communication.