Posted on Monday, November 04, 2013 at 9:30 am CST
Businesses run by self employed people have existed almost since the dawn of time.The U.K. has always been an area in which there were a high proportion of self employed, and even Napoleon referred to Britain as a nation of shop keepers. This meant that most people at that time, and even long after that, worked out of business premises, and relied on this as a means of making a living.
Source: Burnside