remote work

The term remote work became popular during the 2020 to 2022 pandemic that forced the majority of office and knowledge workers to work from home. Prior to that, the practice of working full days from home or somewhere nearer to home than the office, was largely known as telecommuting.The term telework has been commonly used as a synonym for telecommuting, but the 1973 originator of both words, Jack Nilles, intended the latter to mean any substitution of technology for travel to and from the office. Thus, he described telecommuting as one form of telework.
Many terms, have been similarly confused over the years. These include remote work, distributed work, work-from-home (WFH), mobile work, agile work, home working (primarily used in the U.K.), smart working (primarily used in the U.K.), flexible work, work from anywhere, hybrid work, and others.
The confusion in terminology is not simply a matter of semantics. Many have very real labor law and tax implications.

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