It is also said that U.S. physicist Jack Nilles coined the term. In an interview with his alma mater, Nilles explained that ...

In the early 1970s, NASA engineer Jack Nilles proposed telecommuting as an alternative to centralised office working. His vision was to reduce traffic, air pollution and energy consumption in city ...

Remote work has its origins in tech (you could argue). Jack Nilles, while working as a physicist in the early 1970s, coined the phrase "telecommuting." In 1979, IBM became the first corporate ...