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Five years of remote work? Try 25 years.

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Time magazine's new San Francisco bureau chief writes about the brave new world of working from home for exactly 20 years .

The times were dire — but for an introverted work-from-home journalist, life actually became easier.

"I have watched, shocked, as the world has basically mandated that my life apply to everyone," he writes.

4.3 percent of Americans were working from home most of the week , up from 3.8 percent a decade earlier .

The more we work from home, the more structure we need: this was clear a month into the pandemic, when I wrote about my new time management system.

By 2020 no one in my New York HQ was calling me at 6 a.m. PT anymore, and work became something that could be done on a night owl's schedule.