I am now at an age when I can choose to retire early. My pensions are enough that I can walk out of work and just retire tomorrow. I plan on working for another 2 years, possibly 3 before I retire a bit more comfortably but the fact that I can walk tomorrow is wonderfully freeing.
I WFH (since COVID) and was told on Friday that I needed to move back into the office. There is no real reason as I work on servers that could be anywhere, even I don't know where they are and work 'with' a group of people most of whom I have never met and do not work in the same site as my home site or even each other (I work for a multinational). I would be sitting in an office with people I don't know or work with (even my boss works at a site a few hundred miles away) just to the look of things.
I said that I would not move back to the office and that it was time to retire. I am on a 1 month notice contract and I have 17 day's leave banked so far this year. That's 3 weeks and 2 days of my notice month leaving 3 days. I have 9 hours of flexi leave banked so that leaves about 1 and a half days of which HR will take up my last day with admin, signatures, returning equipment and leaving interviews.
My boss (actually my boss's boss who is pushing for return-to-office) would have me for about 4 hours to explain to my replacement how to do my job. Since I am the only person who does what I do and it's a bit of a wide-ranging job (from admin to supplier management, server maintenance and database programming and management) 4 hours is just about enough to hand over all my logins and transfer my source code.
I got the message this morning that I can remain WFH. Being old is a real superpower.