WFH... or 'Telecommuting' from a 'SOHO', as it was known at the beginning of the 90s isn't a remotely new concept. In fact I seem to recall that it was a late-80s 'Yuppie ideal', especially for 'Creatives'. And by the mid-late 90s entirely practical for many via systems such as 'RDC' (Remote Desktop Connection) etc. It's only got more and more possible in those 20-30 years.
I spent 12 years lecturing (part time) at Stow College in Glasgow from 2000... much of my 'prep' was done at home via RDC over a 1/2 meg connection. At the turn of the Millennium our 'brave new world' was to include not only the 'death of the Salesman' but the demise of the big office. ...With all the benefits of improved home life, better mental health, reduced congestion and environmental impact - better access to work opportunities for rural areas, etc. etc. etc...
There is much irony in the fact it's taken a Pandemic to illustrate how practical what we should have been doing over 20 years ago is. And much sadness in that those who make their money through arguable usury of property speculation, and keeping people enslaved to 'hamster wheel' work practices and situations; which really amount to a form of 'private taxation' of other people's (actually productive) work - by the lazy, entitled, and parasitic.
