Older workers are more likely to work from home full time or in the office full time, but not in hybrid arrangements, Business Insider reported.

That trend among workers aged 50 to 64, which spans older Gen X (also known as millennials) and younger boomers, contrasts with that of Gen Zers and younger millennials, who are the least likely to be fully on-site and most likely to be hybrid. The results are gleaned from data from the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes, a monthly survey that has been running since May 2020.

The survey covered more than 13,200 workers, finding that those aged 50 to 64 were fully on-site more than two-thirds of the time, more than 11 percentage points more than those aged 20 to 29. The latter were most likely of any age demographic to work in a hybrid setting. Nearly a third of them did, almost double the rate of those 50 to 64.

The authors of the survey defined a full workday as six or more hours.

This data comes as supercommuting—workers traveling over 75 miles to their job —is on the rise, according to research by Stanford University economists Nick Bloom and Alex Finan. Supercommuting increased by 32 percent post-pandemic, while the share of commuters over 40 miles across the country's 10 largest cities also saw a large increase.

Two effects are driving the "polarization" among older workers, said Jose Maria Barrero, one of the survey's lead researchers and an assistant professor of finance at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) Business School, in an interview with Business Insider.

"On one hand, those older workers need less mentoring and networking than younger ones. That means they can afford to be fully remote and might feel really comfortable doing things on their own," he said. "On the other hand, these folks have decades of experience and habit coming into the office. So that muscle memory might push them to come in more often than younger workers who embrace hybrid."

Business Insiders provided two examples of this trend.

Dennis C., 65, quit a six-figure job when his managers wanted him to return to the office three days a week. He had previously taken a slight pay cut to move into a fully remote role.

On the other hand, Charles Bond, 62, decided to retire early rather than work fully remotely. He said he didn't want to bring his work home with him, and he liked being around others on his team, with whom he is still friends.