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    Working from home has a troubled history. Coronavirus is exposing its flaws again | Helen McCarthy

    During the UK lockdown, home working has soared. But struggles with childcare, pay and conditions aren’t new
    by Helen McCarthy Apr 12, 2020 3 minutes
    ‘Female teleworkers were less likely to have a dedicated workspace or a spouse on hand to keep children at bay.’ A woman working from home in 1999. Photograph: Peter Brooker/Rex Features

    In the early 1970s, futurologists began to reimagine the relationship between home and workplace. A new wave of technological innovation seemed to be pushing together the private and public worlds that the Industrial Revolution had rent apart.

    Networked computers installed in an employee’s home would revolutionise the modern corporation. Teleworking – as it became known – would free humanity from the grind of the daily commute, enabling an easier blend of work and family life.

    Nearly 50 years on, elements of this vision have now become a reality for millions worked mainly from home in 2019, but well over a quarter had some experience of home-working. In recent weeks, that figure has dramatically increased as a result of the lockdown measures implemented to tackle the spread of Covid-19. With all but confined to their homes, the virtual office is now the new norm – a development that could prove to have far-reaching consequences. Is telework an idea whose time has finally come?

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