Many of us are becoming acquainted again with our kitchen tables, frantically scavenged home desks and even beds as working from home once again becomes the main show in town.
It's not the first time workers in Aotearoa have shifted to their homes, and for some people it's preferable.
But critics of working from home argue that business don't do anything that isn't good for their bottom lines and that the "remote working" fad is dangerous for workers physically and mentally.
Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel are journalists who left New York for the bright lights of Missoula Montana well before the pandemic hit, and had very different experiences of working from home.
They've been looking at the psychology and realities of remote work during the pandemic and put their findings together in a new book titled Out of Office - The big problem and bigger promise of working from home.
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