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Humans have only been working in offices since the industrial revolution, before that it was nearly all WFH. WFH is our natural state.

• layer8 3y ago
  This wasn’t true for any kind of collaborative work requiring physical presence.
  • kjkjadksj 3y ago
    Well to be fair, peasants helping eachother to raise a barn is technically working from home. This idea of commuting has only been possible with a means to move labor from one region to another versus having cottage industries ran out of the home. That came with the horsedrawn streetcar.
    • charcircuit 3y ago
      Having to go and visit a construction site is not working from home.
  • jandrese 3y ago
    It was true when "industry" was in the first floor of your house or two houses down on the estate/plantation. This was not that long ago. If you visit historic sites from the 1800s it was extremely common to find workshops among the servant housing. Not only for the estate, but for export to the local community. Long commutes aren't practical when the roads are bad and the fastest mode of personal transportation is a horse.