What a lot of people don't realize is offices are largely a by product of industrialization. Prior to that, most operations were either family ran and ran out o

What a lot of people don't realize is offices are largely a by product of industrialization. Prior to that, most operations were either family ran and ran out of a home, or even when a company employed non-family members, they often paid piece work. So the employee would work from home, and then deliver their work to their employer and get paid per piece they produced. What's old will be new again.