For British insurance worker Steven Williams, the concept of hybrid working is nothing new.
In the six years before the crisis, Mr Williams, 44, split his working week between his home in Cardiff and his office in Bromley, Kent, where he worked as head of price comparison relationships at Direct Line Group (DLG).
Mr Williams started the three-and-a-half hour commute by train from his home in Wales on a Tuesday morning, returning home to his family on Thursday evenings with the rest of his work carried out at home.
"I normally did that three out of every four weeks and then I had one week where I worked totally from home, just to give myself a break from the travelling," the father-of-two told