Companies know the tech job market is awful right now, there simply aren't the number of jobs there used to be pre-pandemic or even a year into the pandemic. Hell I haven't even had a raise in 3 years, and while that kind of sucks, I don't have much leverage because my boss knows the job market sucks. I've been WFH for almost 5 years now, and thankfully I don't work for a company that wants us to return to the office.

The trick is to save and avoid being caught up in a precarious position

Surely not everybody can do it, but a lot are caught in lifestyle inflation

Seeing this is Amazon corporate, as warehouse and delivery people never worked from home, probably most of them (if they weren't dumb with their Amazon salaries).