Many of us got a taste of working from home over the past year, and it wasn’t always pretty: laptops balanced on couches, the realisation you left your phone charger at the office, and Zoom meetings to the soundtrack of clattering housemates.
But this is not a fair representation of remote working. This is the rushed, COVID-inspired recipe, pulled together in desperate circumstances, like those box-mix brownies you half-heartedly whipped up for the Christmas street party.
So, outside of a world in lockdown, what does “normal” remote working look like and why is it becoming so popular? The appeal is perfectly summed up by 35-year-old Francis*, an engineer who swapped the office for the beach back in 2018: “I’ve got a wagon
