History Of The Workhome

Home-based work is considered a family-friendly, sustainable working practice offering a great solution to most of today’s pressing problems. Still, little is known about the contemporary home-based workforce.

The type of building that combines workplace and dwelling has been said to have existed hundreds or thousands of years ago. Strangely, only little has been written about it.

The Evolution Of Workhome

During the industrial revolution, it was called “house”. However, this term gradually came to mean a building in which people eat, sleep, cook, watch TV, and bathe, noting more during the 20^th century. Hence, a building where people dwell and work became nameless.

In 1970s, the term “live/work” was created. In the absence of any other name, this term was used as a generic term for buildings combining workplace and dwelling. Still, it is a problematic term since it remains closely associated with the loft-style apartment.

Indeed, a new term is needed to describe all the building that combine workplace and dwelling in the same way that “workplace” describes all buildings people work in and “dwelling” describes all the buildings people live in. Hence, the term “workhome” was coined. It was the simplest and clearest term that describes the place where people both dwell and work.

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