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N Like many employees around the world, research scientists at DFKI left the buildings in mid-March to begin working remotely. Re- search is still innovative even from your own home and project work has continued in a focused manner. After all, knowledge workers focus on knowledge and work, not on offices and buildings. The realm of ideas is found in the person: the brain also thinks when the person is at home, and it goes without saying that no one misses the commute to work or the search for a parking spot. Shockingly, a pandemic was necessary before many companies de- cided to seize the opportunities of digitalization consistently across the board and to explain the benefits of distributed work to every- one.