Am I crazy ? ..didn't GitHub pretty much pioneer working from home (called "remote work" then) way way way before the pandemic? Definitely before 2016. They were one of the first to scale salaries to where you lived and set a lot of the common industry standards. It was all about dogfooding their own product and working remote using Github itself.
They were all about NOT having an office. I never even realized they had an office, let alone a famous one. I remember people would dream about working for Github b/c of the flexibility, The article doesn't even mention this in passing ...