It's no longer about the virus — remote workers simply don't want to return to the office

“What we’re seeing is that working from home has worked for people,” Juliana Horowitz, associate director of research at Pew Research Center and a co-author of the new report, told Insider. “We saw this even in 2020 when it’d been a quick shift to remote work, and we saw that for the most part people thought it was easy for them to have what they needed to work from home and to continue to meet deadlines and to be productive.”