More data entry clerks work from home now than back in the 1930s. The trend can be attributed to the rise in popularity of the internet and the World Wide Web. Clerical work was much harder to do from the comfort of your own home prior to the online digital delivery of data. There was no point working from home back in the old days because home-based data entry operators would’ve had to travel great distances just to obtain the data that needed to be entered. It made more sense for them to be based at the source of the data.