Having recently retired from the aforementioned organisation I have been familiar with working from home for some part of my week for the last 25 years, since laptops (and home networks) became usable.
In a work environment which is primarily client based on variable length contracts, it actually makes a lot of sense, and is the only way to maintain a sensible home / work life balance, or something close to one, altthough the divorce statistics among my colleagues suggest it doesn't work for everybody.
Client time is key, but many clients do not expect contractors on site all the time, most of them do not even have all their own staff in the same office every day.
As long as you have a quiet, undisturbed place to work, and access to required software, hardware and telephony, it is possible to work efficiently and still be home for family a reasonable amount of the time.
Sure there will be clients, roles and parts of projects that require you to be constantly on site and most of us spent a good number of nights in hotels and a good number of hours on the road, but the balance could be struck if you worked at it.
Wfh works for some, no it won't become the norm for some jobs and some organisations, but for many, it is already and will become more so, I believe, for many more, certainly in IT based jobs.
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