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The Work From Home (WFH) phenomenon has been around since the early days. In 2011, 23.86% of the UK population was working from home（ONS, 2022）. As a result of covid-19, the number of people Working From Home will soar in 2020. It increased from 26.6% in 2019 to 46.6% in April 2020. More than 40% of these people are forced to Work From Home because of the epidemic.
There is also a gender gap in home-based work, with almost 47.5% of women reporting being able to work from home in 2020, compared to 45.7% of men. This situation is on the one hand a solution for the offline industry that was hit during the epidemic, but on the other hand, it also shows the impact of the epidemic on lives. A large number of employees who were essentially unable to work online were forced to lose their jobs.
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A survey on the acceptance of remote working at universities shows that remote working shows a different gender gap. Twenty-five per cent of male researchers say that remote working allows them to carry out their research well, and this is 8.5 per cent more acceptable than among women. However, in the field of Career development, women show a better acceptance with 46.8%. Overall, more than half (54.2%) of respondents said they were comfortable with remote working, with an average rating of 3.53 for men and 3.41 for women.
In general, it seems that remote working as a work model that was viable during the work from home period has been tried by various industries because of the epidemic. It is acceptable in practice in areas where Work From Home was already accepted, but it does not fulfil the responsibilities of offline work due to its specificity of relying on the internet.