[brink]

Covid didn't invent remote work. I had been working remote for almost 10 years before Covid arrived. It merely accelerated a force that was already in motion.

[ragestorm]

"I know remote work existed as a small niche before that, but I can't give capitalism credit for normalizing it".

[shkkmo]

Remote work was a rapidly growing trend and had already doubled in the decade before Covid. Covid accelerated that growth but didn't create the trend.