As someone who has been remote, hybrid remote, and almost every other version distributed teams and remote/asynchronous working over the past 13 years, I assure

As someone who has been remote, hybrid remote, and almost every other version distributed teams and remote/asynchronous working over the past 13 years, I assure you there was and still is a remote working trend well before COVID. COVID only poured gasoline on an otherwise very long-term "how we work" trend. COVID probably condensed 10 years of where remote work probably would have ended up in the span of 18 months.