/members-area/b/blog/posts/has-the-great-resignation-come-to-engineering-and-techPhoto by Kevin Bhagat on Unsplash Our last few years have significantly impacted the state of employment. Now, along with widespread vaccines in the US, Microsoft&rsquo;s 2021 Work Trend Index is forecasting a shift in our job model from remote to h...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/blog/posts/has-the-great-resignation-come-to-engineering-and-techSat, 15 Jan 2022 22:18:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:163031d3-07c4-4d3a-a673-247651124238Jan Cumps1<p>Last year, I changed the agreement with my company to work from home by default. Previously it was work from office by default.<br /><br /></p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=22781&AppID=75&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/blog/posts/has-the-great-resignation-come-to-engineering-and-techSat, 15 Jan 2022 19:21:24 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:163031d3-07c4-4d3a-a673-247651124238DAB1<p>I was very fortunate to be able to retire early.</p> <p>Some technical jobs are very demanding and I can see where some people would burn out and drop out.</p> <p>I really enjoyed the technical work, but managing people and ego&#39;s made my decision easier.</p> <p>I still do technical work, I just do it out of the high pressure community.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=22781&AppID=75&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/blog/posts/has-the-great-resignation-come-to-engineering-and-techSat, 15 Jan 2022 14:18:33 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:163031d3-07c4-4d3a-a673-247651124238dubbie0<p>I&#39;m glad that I resigned (or retired as I now call it - technically I did have to resign) before all this Covid happened.&nbsp;</p> <p></p> <p>Dubbie</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=22781&AppID=75&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">