This is precisely backwards from my experience. Older folks have houses and resources and established social networks. They didn't necessarily like remote, bu

This is precisely backwards from my experience. Older folks have houses and resources and established social networks. They didn't necessarily like remote, but they didn't take a huge hit. Younger, less established workers got crushed. They had to work in suboptimal (read lots of roomates and no rooms) conditions. Mentoring was down. Experience was down. Social networks were smashed. Even as an older tech worker, my social networks have atrophied. And I even took extra time to try to keep them up. To be perfectly honest, it feels like the gap between my level of technical skill and the technical skill of incoming employees grew a LOT on both sides. While new folks lacked experience, it felt like they also always brought loads of new stuff to the table--not all of it was valuable but some of it literally gobsmacked those of us in the greybeard category--that seems to be missing now. I suspect a lot of it is the lack of peer social interaction. And, as someone experienced, it seems that the pandemic released me from a lot of useless social obligations as a manager and my technical skill got a HUGE boost (if I get my work done in an hour today I'm not going to sit and do nothing, you know) from being put back into use. So I seem to be a lot better at direct technical tasks than I was pre-pandemic.