I quit my job at UCLA when they required me to come back to in-person work — I can't imagine ever returning to an office

• Rhiannon Little-Surowski is a former DEI executive at UCLA. 
• She quit her job in higher education because of return-to-office mandates.
• Little-Surowski writes that shifting to remote work was the best decision she's made. 

I quit my job working at UCLA when they required that I start coming back into the office three days a week. I couldn't be happier with my choice to leave.

I started working as a student affairs officer in higher education two years after graduating from undergrad at a school I once attended. In 2020, when the pandemic hit, I started looking for other opportunities, mainly because I didn't want to have experience at just one campus.