(NYTIMES) - For Ms Mona Janochoski, a chemist who ran a laboratory, working from home during the coronavirus pandemic was the deciding factor. It was the first time in her career that she had not gone to an office every day. And she found that she enjoyed being home with her husband, Tom, who had retired as the chief financial officer of a trust company in 2017. Her daughter, who was a graduate student, was living with them, too. That got her thinking about something she had not given much thought to before: quitting her job after 36 years and seeing what else life had in store. "When I was home, my husband really liked it," Ms Janochoski, 60, said. "He got used to the idea of me retiring. We kept going back to the adviser to make sure we could retire." Retirements in the pandemic by those at the top of the income ladder were often by choice. And for that slice of corporate employees, working from home for some or all of the pandemic scrambled their thinking on work and life. They had been working for decades in an office, and suddenly at home with a spouse, they began to see the possibility of a different life. "The vast majority of our clients have at least inquired about what th...