Beforehand, the situation with my employer was anti-telecommute. The elderly-run company simply stated that people working from home don't actually work. And yet here we are months into the pandemic with people forced to work from home. I guess I haven't done any work, like all of my coworkers, for the past five months. See, every company lie is an attribute to why I don't buy their products and services, or at least try not to. And the other lie that forwarded data caps on home Internet service? Yeah, I remember very little traffic congestion around 7PM, after traditional business hours that lasted for 60-90 minutes and then that went away, too--the congestion, not the caps.
But before the pandemic the situation was this for me. If I was going to have the privilege of working from home and avoiding the undesirables of going into the office then I should bare the costs of making that happen. It is a trade-off. If i do not want to deal with the costs then I can go into the office. That seemed reasonable to me for someone working a 40-hour scheduled work week. But if I were salary, and I could find myself in a situation where I could be worked 50, 60 or more hours a week then the trade-off scenario is lost and I would expect my employer to ante up on the cost of Internet service.