I can only speak for myself. I left a role a few months ago that I enjoyed and was good at because I felt it was career-limiting. I'm a data scientist by profes

I can only speak for myself. I left a role a few months ago that I enjoyed and was good at because I felt it was career-limiting. I'm a data scientist by profession, but I wasn't actually doing any data science; I was more of a technical resource. I wrote Python and R packages for interacting with company resources, using cloud storage, handling fiscal dates, etc, and consulted on moving teams to Azure from our on-prem infrastructure. It was great, but it seemed that I was shedding the human capital that would further my career in data science in favor of being a quasi-engineer (higher paid but less skilled). I dunno. I realized it was a mistake to leave soon after I did. The company I worked for had great benefits, great work-life balance, and -- importantly -- other opportunities I could have transitioned into if I wanted. And the pay potential is only a bit worse. So I ditched the new job and I start back at my former employer on Monday, funnily enough. I guess all this is to say that there's not one answer to why people are leaving -- we all have our individual reasons. It isn't just about salary, as some comments here indicate, but it's not just about remote work either.