Interestingly enough, in IT remote work started pretty early - first you had various homegrown setups at companies and universities (BBN, Project MAC at MIT, et

Interestingly enough, in IT remote work started pretty early - first you had various homegrown setups at companies and universities (BBN, Project MAC at MIT, etc), and IBM starting a telecommute option in 1979 with 5 employees, and having over 2000 employees working remotely by 1983.