

Variations of this motto include: "Work is what we do, not where we are." During the Information Age, many startups were founded in the houses of entrepreneurs who lacked financial resources.

In 1995, the motto that "work is something you do, not something you travel to" was coined. By the early 1980s, branch offices and home workers were able to connect to organizational mainframes using personal computers and terminal emulators. By 1983, the experiment was expanded to 2,000 people. In 1979, five IBM employees were allowed to work from home as an experiment. The terms "telecommuting" and "telework" were coined by Jack Nilles in 1973. In the early 1970s, technology was developed that linked satellite offices to downtown mainframes through dumb terminals using telephone lines as a network bridge. The Industrial Revolution led to the construction of factories, which were centralized workplaces. Hundreds of years ago, craftsmen in trades such as carpentry, pottery, whole-grain foods, and smiths worked from home and sold their wares from home.

