For literally centuries companies, especially those engaged mostly in "office" type work, worked pretty much in the same way: The company would have office space and all employees would arrive there in the morning, do 8 hours (give or take) of work there, and then go home. This was how things worked a hundred years ago, 50 years ago, and even 10 years ago. The Covid-19 pandemic, which started to make the news in the first half of 2020, changed things radically, though. That's because a good majority of such companies took it extremely seriously, and most of them took very quick action and, whenever possible and feasible, outright demanded that employees do remote work from home rather than come to the office. In fact, many such companies, especially IT companies, quickly implemented a very strong rule that coming to the office was outright forbidden unless absolutely necessary. The timing couldn't have been more serendipitous because in 2020 working most IT jobs from