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Because remote work isn’t new and was on an uptrend before the pandemic.

My dad likes to remind me that he was 'working remote' (had a dial up modem and two factor auth in to whatever he was doing at AT&T/Ameritech) back in the early 2000s

I started working remotely over DSL at the end of 2001.

I also recall getting an ISDN line in the late 90s, but I was working in an office at the time.

I started working remotely end 1994. An analog line ran to my office had two analog 19k2 modems on it and I worked remotely on the server which was connected to the internet using a 10mbit fiber.

Worked from home before that '90/'91 but not online. Had an IBM cash register in my bedroom for which I wrote a POS application.

“It exists and is growing” and it being a trend are very different. I think it is an irreversible trend now but it wasn’t before the pandemic. There are just way more people like myself didn’t even think of it seriously for many reasons (I did know it existed) and they all have woken up now.

Remote work seemed to be declining in the Bay Area pre-pandemic. My company and many others were pushing for more in-office work over remote work as they felt that employees were able to be more creative and productive if they were able to collaborate spontaneously which in their eyes could only happen if everyone was in the office. This really seemed to take off in the area after Yahoo had implemented their no remote work policy.

if course it declines in the Bay Area, a place that people famously move into for work. It'd be silly to move to the Bay only to then work in a shitty rental appartment.

Growing is most certainly a trend. It doesn't make it a permanent trend but that is definitely a trend.

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