Meet boomer who retired rather than work remotely

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Meet a boomer who retired from a 6-figure job so he wouldn't have to work remotely full time

After spending nearly 30 years at the same company, Charles Bond decided to hang up his hat and retire early. He just didn't want to work remotely.

"At first when they said, oh, you could work from home for a couple weeks, I thought, cool," Bond said."I even said, oh, I'm going to get to work from home." "I would find myself going out and being in the backyard, talking to my family, and I'd go, oh God, I got to go back in, I'm at work!" he said. Lunches turned into running errands, and he'd be jolted back to the reality that he was working. He also said it waswithout his large workstation from the office, with just a laptop and a phone.

 

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