Working at home isn't something anew in Hong Kong. In the past, those small single-blocked buildings housing a lot of Chinese people whose livelihood were doing business downstairs while keeping inventory and sleeping upstairs. There was much harmony in the households with a few family members that the younger generations worked in collaboration with their seniors.
Content development involves not only outdoor activities in the cities and remote countrysides but also doing research at indoor library which is small and medium enterprises (SME) cannot afford. Strand your Content Developer at a small office (SO) is no wiser than paying him to work at his home office (HO).