The concept of working from home isn’t entirely new. In fact, it’s been around since well before the digital age, although most “work from home” jobs back then were agricultural or artisan in nature. Over time, as technology advanced to allow people the ability to connect without being in the same physical space, working from home (or another remote location) grew in popularity.
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic the number of people working remotely in the U.S. doubled about every 15 years: creeping slowly up from less than one percent of the workforce in the 1960s to over four percent in 2019.
