In some jobs it would not be practical, but in the case of the cellist playing a 25 minute sonata in premises with a green room, but over an hour from her home, it is eminently practical.
Even in those jobs in which "it would not be practical", who decides what the parameters of the work and the working conditions are?
I work in an industry in which things have changed enormously over 20 years. When I first started you "needed" teams of 5 or 6 to do what one person does now. Things have flexed. Some of the admin is less time consuming because of computers. But a lot of the changes have come about because people have changed the way they do things. Individuals are contributing more, and in different ways, over time, as their colleagues and potential colleagues or assistants have been made redundant or not recruited.
I don't think these changes are, mostly, for the better (although they are in some ways). But I only use this as an example that things CAN change. work does change all the time. Things people said can't be done, very often are, a bit later, a bit at a time.
The principle according to which these changes are effected is usually to do with paying staff less to build the bottom line. If you wanted to - if we wanted to, as a society - we could make huge rafts of changes along different principles.