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Ten years ago, working from home was a privilege granted to a lucky few.
Today, for millions of people, it is simply part of the job, and the change happened faster than anyone predicted.
The benefits are easy to see: no commute, more flexibility and, for many parents, more time with their children.
Companies, too, have discovered that they can hire talented people regardless of where they live.
Yet the quiet costs of this revolution are only beginning to appear.
Without a shared office, the casual conversations that once produced new ideas have almost disappeared.
Junior employees, in particular, miss the chance to learn simply by watching their more experienced colleagues.
There is also the problem of boundaries: when the kitchen table becomes a desk, work has a way of following people into the evening.
Some researchers describe a new kind of exhaustion that comes from being permanently available.
Others, however, argue that the problem lies not in remote work itself but in the way it is organised.
Teams that agree on clear working hours and meet in person from time to time report much higher satisfaction.
Cities are changing as well, because empty offices and crowded suburbs are reshaping the way neighbourhoods are used.
Cafés in business districts have lost customers, while small shops near residential streets are thriving.
It would be a mistake, then, to treat remote work as a temporary trend.
At the same time, it would be equally naive to call it a perfect solution.
Like most technologies, it gives us new freedom and new responsibilities in the same package.
The real challenge is no longer whether we can work from anywhere.
It is whether we can still decide when to stop.